Ex Parte Tillman’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1984
11 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 Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana
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.
““Any agreement made in contemplation of broken family ties, and providing for the continuation of the breach was annulled by the reconciliation and the renewal of the united family life.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DePass · Hyder v. Hyder““The rights of the father and mother are both subject to the still higher right of the child to have its welfare safeguarded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. Cobb
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.