In re Delano’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1980
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under these circumstances we take it that it is our duty to leave the child in the custody of this mother. Our view is that, where a proceeding for divorce which incidentally involves the question of the custody of a child of the marriage is pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, the interim custody of the child should not be changed, in contravention of the orders of such court, by another court, on habeas corpus . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.