Hilliard v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 1958
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Legate v. Legate · State Ex Rel. Wood v. Deaton · Dunn v. Jackson · State v. Pratt · Duckworth v. Thompson
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.
““That the custody of the child is by law with the father, unless it appears by satisfactory evidence that the best interest of the child demands that he should be deprived of that custody, and upon him who' so avers devolves the burden of proof,— the presumptions are against it.” [ 99 Mo. 484 , 12 S.W. 801 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hustace v. Black
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.