Mill v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Pee v. United States (1959), In re J. P. (1982)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Norton v. Shelby County · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · Ex parte Liddell · Matter of Knowack · Farnham v. Pierce
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such laws are most salutary and are in no sense criminal and not intended as a punishment, but are calculated to save the child from becoming a criminal. The whole and only object of such laws is to provide the child with an environment such as will save him to the state and society as a useful and law-abiding citizen, and to give him the educational requirements necessary to attain that end. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Before the state can be substituted to the right of the parent it must affirmatively be made to appear that the parent has forfeited his natural and legal right to the custody and control of the child by reason of his failure, inability, neglect, or incompetency to discharge the duty and thus to enjoy the right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be termed natural, as well as legal and moral.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JP
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.