Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Degren v. State (1999), Williams v. State (1981)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 148 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 In re Vendo Co. · Wheeler v. State · Purifoy v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Cearfoss v. State · Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Board of Commissioners
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Any parent, adoptive parent or other person who has the permanent or temporary care or custody or responsibility for the supervision of a minor child under the age of eighteen years who causes abuse to such minor child shall be guilty of a felony. ...'" Pope, supra at 321 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]bsent a court order or award by some appropriate proceeding pursuant to statutory authority, we think it to be self-evident that responsibility for supervision of a minor child may be obtained only upon the mutual consent, expressed or implied, by the one legally charged with the care of the child and by the one assuming the responsibility. In other words, a parent may not impose responsibility for the supervision of his or her minor child on a third person unless that person accepts the responsibility, and a third person may not assume such responsibility unless the parent grants it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““The child abuse statute speaks in terms of a person who ‘has’ responsibility for the supervision of a minor child. It does not prescribe how such responsibility attaches or what ‘responsibility’ and ‘supervision’ encompass. A doubt or ambiguity exists as to the exact reach of the statute’s provision with respect to ‘has responsibility for the supervision of,’ justifying application of the principle that permits courts in such circumstances to ascertain and give effect to the real intention of the Legislature. Bowers equates ‘permanent or temporary care or custody’ with ‘in loco parentis,’ but ‘responsibility for the supervision of is not bound by certain of the strictures required for one to stand in place of or instead of the parent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.