Greene v. Schuble’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably In Re Oates (2003), Massey v. Galvan Ex Rel. Massey (1992)
30 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 Knollhoff v. Norris · Trader v. Dear · Strobel v. Thurman · Whatley v. Bacon · Armstrong v. Reiter
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If the right to possession of a child is presently governed by a court order, the court in a habeas corpus proceeding involving the right to possession of the child shall compel the return of the child to the relator if and only if it finds that the relator is presently entitled to possession by virtue of the court order. * * * * * * (c) The court may issue any appropriate temporary order if there is a serious immediate question concerning the welfare of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Grimes v. Flores · Rocha v. Schuble“Our opinion does not reflect consideration of the merits of the other proceedings pending in the court below.... The office of habeas corpus is limited to restoring possession of the children to the person legally entitled to present possession, and may not be used to relitigate custody.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re PDM · In Re CAMM“a pending motion for modification of the prior court order.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.