Pickle v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Walker v. Sheldon (1961), Leonhard v. United States (1980)
12 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Hartfield v. Roper · Tidd v. . Skinner · Bixby v. Dunlap · Clark v. Fitch · Lawyer v. . Fritcher
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be a reproach to our legal system if, for the abduction of a child in arms, no remedy ran to its parent, although `for a parrot, a popinjay, a thrush' and even `for a dog' an ample remedy is furnished to their custodian for the loss of their possession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in actions for the abduction of immature children from the custody of their . . . parents . . . no loss of service need be alleged or proven; that for the direct injury done, a direct recovery may be had without resort to the fiction that a loss of service has been occasioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It may be observed, however, that the quasi -fiction of servitium amisit affords protection to the rich man, whose daughter occasionally makes his tea, but leaves without redress the poor man, whose child, as here, is sent, unprotected, to earn her bread amongst strangers.”
1 later decision 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.