Lloyd v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1964
4 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 Peacock v. Bradshaw · St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Hale · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Lemons · O'Quinn v. O'Quinn · Wright v. Wright
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is obvious that the basis of these proceedings was the willful wrong and, to say the least, flagrant trespass committed by respondents on the right and privilege of relator to the care and custody of his children. So far as disclosed by the record, respondents, without the knowledge or consent of relator, or pretense of legal right, took possession of his minor children, removed them from their domicile and the domicile of their father, as well, into another county, and were illegally restraining them at the time the writ of habeas corpus was sued out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knollhoff v. Norris
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.