In Re Erving’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), Commonwealth Ex Rel. Graham v. Graham (1951)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Richards v. Collins · In re Bort · 47 N.J. Eq. 302 - Winans v. Luppie · In Re Alderman · People Ex Rel. Allen v. . Allen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a child cannot be lawfully regarded as a mere inanimate chattel which must be restored to the lawful owner in all circumstances. Like the parent, the child has rights, and the strict legal rights of a father, as such, can only be enforced in this court with proper regard to the best interests of the child.”
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.