Marshall v. Reams’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably 390 So. 2d 53 - Kendrick v. Everheart (1980), 95 So. 2d 25 - Grant v. Corbitt (1957)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wishes, however, of children, of sufficient capacity to choose for themselves should be given especial consideration when their parents have for a long time voluntarily allowed them to live in the family of another; and the court will make no coercive order in such cases, to enforce the mere legal right of the parent to their custody, against the manifest inclination and reasonable choice of the children to remain where they are.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallick v. Vance
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.