Perkins v. Westcoat’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2008
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Harring v. Coles
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not on the ground of any liability to pay on the part of the child, but upon equitable principles, because in such case it is right that the estate should bear, or at least share, the burden of the support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Estate of Reed
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.