Carpenter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Bowers v. State (1978), 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth (1991)
44 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 Hinkle v. State · State v. Spiegel · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Rogers v. Commonwealth · Dean v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he great preponderance of authority is to the effect that a parent has a right to punish a child within the bounds of moderation and reason, so long as he does it for the welfare of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re GH · In re G.H.“Generally, it is held that persons standing in loco parentis have the same right in this respect as have natural parents[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re GH · In re G.H.“Words such as "due," "moderate," "necessary," and "reasonable" as applied to chastisement are ever changing according to the ideas prevailing in our minds during the period and conditions in which we live. Where a question is raised as to whether punishment has been moderate or excessive, the fact is one for the jury to determine from the attending circumstances, considering the age, size and conduct of the child, the nature of his misconduct, the nature of the instrument used for punishment, and the kind of marks or wounds inflicted on the body of the child. For the reasons stated, the necessity for defining the words used in instruction number 1 did not arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.