Busbee v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1993
13 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 Hernandez v. Thomas · Porter v. Porter · Miller v. Miller · Robertson v. Bass
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case the legal rights of the father not having been relinquished or forfeited, and his ability to take proper care of the child appearing, the custody should be awarded to him on the showing made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At common law the father has the paramount right to the custody and control of his legitimate minor children... .”
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.