Cory v. Cory’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 144 W. Va. 478 - Bond v. Bond (1959), Smith v. Smith (1961)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Foster v. Foster · 16 Cal. 2d 190 - Prouty v. Prouty · 49 Cal. App. 2d 581 - Washburn v. Washburn · Stever v. Stever
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have been cited to no case, and believe none will be found, wherein it has been held that the courts may deprive parents of the custody of their offspring because of a disagreement with such parents as to their religious views, at least, as long as their teachings do not conflict with the laws of the land. While respondent argues in his brief that there is no religious issue in this case, and asserts that the question is whether a father should have the right to have his children taught the ‘principles of good citizenship,’ it is patent that both respondent and the trial court are of the opinion that the religious teachings of appellant are incompatible with what they consider the ‘principles of good citizenship.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]iffer as we may, and, we might say, as most of us do, as to the wisdom and soundness of the reasoning of plaintiff and her fellow Witnesses, it is not for courts to say that her religious convictions and those of her associates are necessarily such as to jeopardize the interests of their children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waites v. Waites“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonjour v. Bonjour
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.