Taft v. Taft’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2012
12 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 Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz · Raleigh Fitkin-Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital v. Anderson · Commissioner of Correction v. Myers · United Mine Workers v. White Oak Coal Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances so compelling as to justify curtailing the wife's constitutional rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re AC
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.