Stovall v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1980
1 district · 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears to me that if a father, without any consideration, or merely in consideration of natural love and affection, emancipates his son in this way, still retaining him in his house as one of his family, the emancipation is a nullity and may be revoked at pleasure. It would be hard upon the father if it were not so, .since he is legally responsible for his support, and morally responsible for the parental control due to. his son. The father’s promise to give the son his time, or his gift to his son of a portion of the time of his minority, is executory in its very nature until tile time lias fully elapsed, and in the meantime the father may revoke it at pleasure; certainly so, if the son remains in the father’s family. * * * As the father may effectually deprive the son of the fruits of his labor, it would seem to follow that he may take them to himself under his general right to his son’s services.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Riff
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.