Kane v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1967
20 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 Brice v. Brice · State ex rel. Giroux v. Giroux
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless it can be said with reasonable certainty that the father is morally unfit to associate with the child, the dictates of humanity call for such regulations as will permit him to see his own offspring. ‘It must be borne in mind that the tie between parent and child is one of the most binding in human life, one which the law of nature itself has established.’ No legislation, no judicial interpretation of legislation, should lightly disregard the reciprocal duties of this relationship.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.