State v. Huhn’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2007
20 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 Weir v. Marley · State ex rel. Crockett v. Ellison · In re Scarritt · 222 Mo. App. 553 - State Ex Rel. Canfield v. Porterfield · State v. Elliott
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we have no decision on the point involved in this State, the rule is established throughout the United States that where the father and mother are equally entitled to custody of their minor child, the father does not commit the crime of kidnapping by taking exclusive possession of it [authorities omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter“[a]n adjudication involves the exercise of judicial power through a hearing upon an issue, the receiving and weighing of evidence and the act of rendering a judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TAS
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.