State v. Miskimens’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2015
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 Roe v. Wade · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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.
“when parent treats child’s infirmity “by spiritual means through prayer alone, in accordance with the tenets of a recognized religious body.”) (Emphasis added). Miskimens found that the statute “hopelessly involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newmark v. Williams
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.