Foley v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates (1993), Dunlap v. Dunlap (1930)
34 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Haywood v. Collins · Barnard v. Barnard · Johnson v. Von Kettler · Great Western Telegraph Co. v. Mears
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he child can not maintain a civil action for damages against its parents for such injury. This rule of law, as the court conceives, is founded upon consideration of public policy, affecting family government; that is, that the child shall not contest with the parent the parent’s right to govern the child.’ ””
1 later decision 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.