Borawick v. Barba’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Schmoll v. Creecy (1969), Johnson v. State (1955)
33 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 Finlay v. Finlay · Dexter v. Hall · Richards v. Collins · Insurance Company v. Bangs · The Lessee of Henry Brewer v. Jacob Blougher
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prerogative of the Crown, arising from its general duty as parens patriae to protect persons who have no other rightful protector”
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.