Hancock v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2007
20 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 Holmes v. Coleman · Hancock v. Hancock
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recent case of Holmes v. Coleman, 195 Ark. 196 , 111 S. W. 2d 474 , announces the rule which we think is applicable here. We there said: ‘Courts are very reluctant to take from the natural parents the custody of their child, and will not do so unless the parents have manifested such indifference to its welfare as indicates a lack of intention to discharge the duties imposed by the laws of nature and of the state to their offspring suitable to their station in life. . . .’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Devine v. Martens · Goins v. Edens
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.