State v. McDonie’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1991
1 federal appellate · 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 State v. Kellison · State v. Sutfin · Lawrence v. Commonwealth · Wells v. Smith · 86 W. Va. 434 - State v. Hensley
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.
“"A parent, or one standing in loco parentis, has the authority to administer chastisement or correction to his child...., but it has never been recognized that this chastisement or correction could go beyond what the child's reasonable welfare demands. It has never been recognized that a parent has the right or power to maim or disfigure or disable a child simply because he might be stubborn and not respond to correction in the manner the parent might think proper."”
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.