Harper v. Tipple’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), HOWARD FRANK, MD, PC v. Superior Court (1986)
30 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 Miller v. Wallace · Weir v. Marley · Matter of Forrester · Brooke v. Logan · Lamar v. Harris
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The breaking of the ties that bind father and child to each other can never be justified without the most solemn and substantial reasons, established by plain proof. In any form of proceeding the sundering of such ties should always be approached by the courts `with great caution and with a deep sense of responsibility.' * * *" (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.