Pollock v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2004
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 Flast v. Cohen · Holt v. College of Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons · Trustees of the Philadelphia Museums v. Trustees of the University · 33 Del. Ch. 334 - Trustees of the New Castle Common v. Gordy · Fetters v. Mayor & Council of Wilmington
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or the benefit of any of the necessitous portion of the human family that may come to his knowledge, either directly or indirectly by the agency of such institution as he may select, hereby giving him full authority, to use the same as he may deem best.... I might suggest that the application of said residue, or a portion thereof to and in establishing what is known mostly as a House of Refuge or a place for bettering wayward juveniles, would have my approval, should there be a probability of having established in this vicinity in reasonable time, such an institution....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masten v. State
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.