Wiley v. Spratlan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably In the Interest of J.F.C. (2002), Holley v. Adams (1976)
214 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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Armstrong v. Manzo · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“natural right which exists between parents and their children is one of constitutional dimensions.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . is complete nonsupport for one year required before termination will be allowed? Such would seem to be the intention of the majority as their opinion states: ‘Just as two years did not mean nineteen months in Cawley , so also one year does not mean eight months in this case.’ Thus, applying the reasoning of the majority to the single yearly payment hypothetical, termination would never be allowed as ‘one year does not mean eleven months.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Compasano v. State
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.