Pease v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1931
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“s a pauper. This law was designed to place the burden where it properly belongs—upon the immoral father—and prevent him from easting it either on the mother or the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCoy v. People
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.