Ex Parte Handley’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2018
19 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 Addington v. Texas · Chandler v. Whatley · Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Communications Commission · Brock v. Brock · 351 So. 2d 538 - State Ex Rel. Payne v. Empire Life Ins. 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Equity delights to do justice, and not by halves.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a pleading which, upon its face, concerns the welfare of a minor child is sufficient to invoke the equity jurisdiction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Parker
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.