Keegan v. Geraghty’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Hockaday v. Lynn (1906), Darling v. Darling (1916)
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Ross v. Ross · Sewall v. Roberts
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To have it turned away upon his death from blood relations, where it would be the natural desire to have property go, and pass into the hands of an alien in blood, -to produce such effect, it seems to us, the language of the statute should be most clear and unmistakable, leaving no room for any question whatever. We find in our statute of adoption no express language giving to the adopted child the right to inherit from any one else than the adoptive parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our statute of adoption provides that the child adopted shall be deemed, for the purpose of inheritance by such child, the child of the parents by adoption, etc., ‘For the purpose of inheritance by such child,’—from whom? The statute does not say, but we say, from the adoptive parents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A child so adopted shall be deemed, for the purposes of inheritance by such child . . . the child of the parents by adoption the same as if he had been born to them in lawful wedlock, . . . .””
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.