Hill v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2012
18 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 Stuart v. . Palmer · Richards v. Collins · Matter of Bistany · Wallace v. Blanchard · 12 Cal. App. 582 - Modern Loan Co. v. Police Court
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... the primal instincts and the natural and legal rights of the parents may not be lightly brushed aside ...' All courts recognize that ... best interest of the child is not measured altogether by material and economic factors parental love and affection must find some place in the scheme and we all know this item covers a multitude of weaknesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huey v. Lente
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.