Huke v. Huke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But it is suggested, in argument, that this petition is addressed to the chancery powers of the circuit court, and that the Chancellor of England had, in virtue of a delegated authority from the king as parens patries, or, as was sometimes said, the father of the fatherless, a power to require a father, having the means, to set apart a fund for the support of his indigent minor child. That court has again and again asserted a species of vice regal power over the custody and education of children, in virtue of a delegated authority from the king as parens patries”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rawlings v. Rawlings

2. ““In the exercise of that jurisdiction it will appear that the English Court of Chancery went so far as to level orders and decrees against parents and guardians residing in foreign countries — in France and America— and that it stood ready to enforce those decrees by imprisoning the defendants in the Fleet, whenever they should set their feet upon the soil in England.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rawlings v. Rawlings

3. ““This action proceeds in the face of elementary principles.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rawlings v. Rawlings