Patrick Ex Rel. Michal v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1980
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Peck, Domestic Relations, 3d ed. (1930), chapter 18, p. 371, section 30, it is said: "The father has at common law an unquestioned right of custody and control over his minor children as against the mother, and still more clearly as against any third person.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tyner v. . Tyner
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.