Pratt v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 156 N.C. App. 533 - In Re Humphrey (2003), State v. Kirby (1970)
3 federal appellate · 147 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Cox v. Hennis Freight Lines · 47 N.J. Eq. 302 - Winans v. Luppie · Darden v. Bone · Nichols v. McFarland
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abandonment implies conduct on the part of the parent which manifests a willful determination to forego all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he parent has willfully abandoned the juvenile for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the filing of the petition.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a trial commences is a difficult question, and the answer may vary according to the statute being construed and according to the circumstances in a particular case. “In general, it has been held that the trial begins when the jury are called into the box for examination as to their qualifications — when the work of impaneling the jury begins — and that the calling of a jury is part of the trial.” 53 Am-Jur,, Trial, Section 4.... Once the case is reached on the calendar and the jury called into the box, “the hurry of a trial” has begun....”
3 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.