In re King’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1962
13 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 Weir v. Marley · In re Bort · In re Snell · State ex rel. Lembke v. Bechdel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree that, so far as such a proceeding is to be considered as a mere trial of conflicting private rights, there is no reason in the nature of things why the doctrine of estoppel by former adjudication should not apply. . . . When a court in a proper proceeding, wherein conflicting claims to the right to the custody of a child are litigated, takes the custody from the parents and bestows it upon some other person, the legal right of the parent is to that extent extinguished and the new custodian has in that respect the same right formerly held by the parents. The parents may not dispute such right nor relitigate it, except upon a new state of facts. But the court has the same power to change the custody as against the new custodian as it had originally against the parents.” (Pages 698, 699.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bleakley v. Smart
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.