Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1961
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 Miller v. Miller · Robertson v. Bass
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.
““At the common law a father is entitled to the custody of his child, in order that he may discharge his paternal obligations, and enjoy its society. Defendant has not legally surrendered or forfeited his parental rights by leaving her for a few years of infancy in the care of near relatives. Courts do not interfere with these sacred rights and duties; except where the best interests and welfare of the child demands it. Nothing appears in this case to justify such interference. 29, Cyc. 1594; Miller v. Miller, 38 Fla. 227 , 20 South. Rep. 989 ; Robertson v. Bass, 52 Fla. 420 , 42 South. Rep. 243 .””
1 later decision 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.