Roberts v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Heim (1976), Matter of Adoption of John Doe (1982)
28 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 241 Mo. App. 1048 - State Ex Rel. White v. Swink · Bassett v. Bassett · Pra v. Gherardini · Wilcox v. Fisher · In Re Stuart
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prosecuted as a means of determining custodial rights of children, however, the inquiry is generally broader than that normally involved in habeas corpus [where] [t]he child's welfare becomes a prime consideration irrespective of the parties' interests... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“habeas corpus is an available remedy by which to consider controversies involving the issue of custody of infants. This remedy has been recognized in this jurisdiction since early times.”
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.