State v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1998
17 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 240 Mo. App. 336 - Williams v. Williams · Knepper v. Knepper · 241 Mo. App. 234 - State v. Farrell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although such proceedings are properly conducted in a summary manner and even though it is possible the trial judge possessed extraneous information as to the merits of this controversy, still affirmative evidence of the required facts must appear of record. We cannot and will not on appeal magnify this evidence by surmise and conjecture and thereby deprive a natural mother of the custody of her child and prepare the way to place that child with strangers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Stephen
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.