Wares’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1927
12 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 City of Salem v. Eastern Railroad · Farnham v. Pierce · Train v. Boston Disinfecting Co. · Kelley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The discretionary power given to the board or officers to whose custody the child may be committed to discharge it before the end of the term if the object of the commitment has been accomplished, is to the advantage rather than disadvantage of the parent, and we see no valid objection to bestowing it upon such board or officers. Equally important discretionary powers vested in other boards have been upheld, and similar powers exercised by the trustees of the state industrial and reform schools have never, so far as we are aware, been questioned.” (p. 75.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Clark
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.