Heber v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1986
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Bowen v. Stewart · Parker v. State · Lee v. Back
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of the act is not punishment, but reformation, discipline and education, and to provide for the proper custody of children within certain age limits who, on account of neglect of their parents or for other causes, were in need of proper guardianship. While the courts have recognized this to be the primary purpose of the law, they have also consistently recognized the fundamental proposition that every parent is entitled to have the care and custody of his-own child, and this right can only be taken from him when it is made to appear that some law enacted by the state for the child’s welfare and the welfare of society has been disobeyed by him; that these questions are to be determined only after such parent has been given the opportunity of answering any charges which may be filed against him respecting such matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Flickinger
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.