Dreyer v. Schrick’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably 7 Ill. 2d 545 - In Re Estate of Leichtenberg (1956), In Re Roderick's Estate (1930)
33 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Patterson v. Browning · Flannigan v. Howard · Russell v. Russell · Goldstein v. Hammell · Davis v. Fogle
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first proceeding stands for all time, in all its integrity; attended by the same legal consequences as birth of a child to the adopting parents, unless formally annulled on sufficient grounds, in a proper proceeding to that end. The law creates capacity to inherit, and not birth or adoption. The law invests those born and those adopted with that capacity without distinction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It may be observed that there is no statute which prevents dual inheritance. While the adoption statute creates a new relation of parent and child, and confers new capacity to inherit, it does not purport to cut off capacity to inherit already enjoyed. Without such a statute, the authorities seem to agree that an adopted child may inherit from both its natural and its adopted parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Minor children adopted as aforesaid shall assume the surname of the person by whom they are adopted, and shall be entitled to the same rights of person and property as children or heirs-at-law of the person thus adopting them.” (Gen. Stat. 1915, §§ 6362, 6363.)”
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.