Bourquin v. Bourquin’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Matter of Guardianship of Doney (1977), Henderson v. Henderson (1977)
36 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 Verser v. Ford · State ex rel. Crockett v. Ellison · In Re Thompson · Baker v. Durham · Jewett v. Jewett
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manifestly, the expression ‘welfare of the child’ was never intended to penalize a parent because he may not be financially able to provide his child with the comforts and advantages which more fortunate parents may provide for their children. All the law requires is that the parent be honest and respectable, with disposition and capacity to maintain and educate his child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.