16 Ala. App. 606 - Cook v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1995
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Murphree v. Hanson · Montgomery v. Hughes · Prince v. Prince · Tyson v. Decatur Land Co. · Harrist v. Harrist
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is shown that the father of the child voluntarily placed the infant in the custody of the respondents, it is also shown that -because of the affliction of his wife, and his situation .after she was committed to the asylum, there was little else he could do, and that in so doing he acted for the best interest of the child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ferguson v. Klein
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.