People Ex Rel. Sisson v. Sisson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably People ex rel. Portnoy v. Strasser (1952), 26 N.J. Super. 90 - Boerger v. Boerger (1953)
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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... court cannot regulate by its processes the internal affairs of the home.... The vast majority of matters concerning the upbringing of children must be left to the conscience, patience, and self restraint of father and mother. No end of difficulties would arise should judges try to tell parents how to bring up their children.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.