Commonwealth v. Henig’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2025
3 federal appellate · 7 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' Appeal · Commonwealth v. Fisher · 175 Pa. Super. 150 - Mont Appeal · Holmes Appeal
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To save a child from becoming a criminal, or from continuing in a career of crime ... the legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into one of the courts of the state ... for the purpose of subjecting it to the state’s guardianship and protection. The natural parent needs no process to temporarily deprive his child of its liberty ... to save it ... from the consequences of persistence in a career of waywardness, nor is the state, when compelled, as parens patriae, to take the place of the father for the same purpose, required to adopt any process ...” Commonwealth v. Fisher, 213 Pa. 48, 53 , 62 A. 198, 200 (1905).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Juvenile Court proceedings are not criminal in nature but constitute merely a civil inquiry or action looking to the treatment, reformation, and rehabilitation of the minor child. . . .”
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.