Wallace v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Guardianship of Smith (1954), Barwin v. Reidy (1957)
39 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 Purinton v. Jamrock · Chapsky v. Wood · Nugent v. Powell · 43 Ind. App. 607 - Leonard v. Honisfager · Estate of McKeag
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe it to be universally conceded that the parents have no property right in their children. The right which they have is a natural right, but in all cases the state is parens patriae to the child, and it has power to, by legislation, control the right of the child to- inherit, to take it from its parents, and give it into the custody of others, to determine what is for the best interests of the child, and that which will promote’ the welfare of the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is. the duty to support and maintain the child that gives to the father and mother the right to the custody of the child and to its earnings during minority * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Losh v. Commissioner
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.