State v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 1993
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hankerson v. North Carolina · Simuel v. United States · State v. Hankerson · State v. Thomas · State v. Propst
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before he would allow her to take his children away from him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Huffstetler
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.