Long v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1971
9 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 Legate v. Legate · Ex Parte Will Reeves · Ex Parte Sams
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““show relator to be lacking in a sense of responsibility and just appreciation of his duties as a father, and to be unable and unfit at this time to take care of an infant of tender years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Long““I find that relator, J. E. Long, is at this time less than 21 years of age, not settled in life, and possessing the habits and characteristics of the usual boy of his age.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Long
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.