Slack v. Perrine’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1952
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Burrus · Crowley v. Christensen · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Cole v. Cunningham · Reynolds v. Stockton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the Court of Chancery exercises far more extended control in respect to the custody of children in virtue of an inherent jurisdiction over that subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Church v. Church
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.