Pegan v. Crawmer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Pratts v. Hurley (2004), Hernandez v. Kelly (2006)
132 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 State ex rel. Pirman v. Money · State ex rel. Neff v. Corrigan · State ex rel. Newton v. Court of Claims · Gaskins v. Shiplevy · Byard v. Byler
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A writ of habeas corpus is warranted in certain extraordinary circumstances where there is an unlawful restraint of a person's liberty and there is no adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]fter entry of the judgment or order, the father may petition that he be designated the residential parent and legal custodian of the child or for parenting time rights in a proceeding separate from any action to establish paternity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]abeaus corpus relief is the exception rather than the general rule, and the writ will ordinally [sic] be denied if there is an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.