Graham v. Bennet’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1949 · most notably Sharon v. Sharon (1888), In Re Estate of Baldwin (1912)
24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in relation to their father, the inheritors of his name, his heirs apparent, and entitled to look for, and demand from him, his care, maintenance and protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unquestioned right to their custody, control and obedience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Navarro v. Hull
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.