Pratt v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Honeycutt v. City of Wichita (1992), Marquay v. Eno (1995)
3 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“coextensive with and concomitant to its physical custody of and control over the child. When that custody ceases because the child has passed out of the orbit of its authority in such a way that the parent is perfectly free to reassume control over the child's protection, the school's custodial duty also ceases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“deprived [the child] of the protection [from] his parents or guardian. Therefore, [it] ... is properly required to give him the protection which [he has lost].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extended its control over its pupils from the school door to the bus stop ....”
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.