Cowls v. Cowls’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The power of the court of Chancery to interfere with and control, not only the estates but the persons and custody of all minors within the limits of its jurisdiction, is of very ancient origin, and cannot now be questioned. This is a power which must necessarily exist somewhere, in every well regulated society, and more especially in a republican government, where each man should be reared and educated under such influences that he may be qualified to exercise the rights of a freeman and take part in the government of the country. It is a duty, then, which the country owes as well to itself, as to the infant, to see that he is not abused, defrauded or neglected, and the infant has a right to this protection.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 48 Ill. App. 3d 98 - Wilbon v. D. F. Bast Co.

2. “[i]t was by its original jurisdiction clothed with the same powers before.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 156 Ill. 2d 53 - In Re MM