Green v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably In Matter of Badger (1920), 153 W. Va. 404 - State Ex Rel. Kiger v. Hancock (1969)
53 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 Chapsky v. Wood · Verser v. Ford · Brooke v. Logan · Wilcox v. . Wilcox · In re Scarritt
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is not to be forgotten or overlooked that such use of this writ is of an equitable nature, and therefore the welfare of the infant is the polar star by which the court is to be guided in the exercise of its discretion; and the court, when asked to restore, is not bound by any mere legal right of parent or guardian, but is to give it due weight as a claim founded on human nature, and generally equitable and just.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.