State v. Bachelor’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably In the Interest of Cooper (1981), Sheppard v. Sheppard (1981)
36 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 Vallimont v. Medford · Finney v. Finney
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think it entirely plain that misconduct on the part of parents which would empower a juvenile court to take jurisdiction of a child as `dependent and neglected' is likewise such breach of parental duty as to make the parents unfit to be entrusted with the custody and rearing of their child in a custody award matter."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re SMQ · Judson v. Hart
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.