Bilderback v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... (I)t may well be doubted that a parent may barter his child to adoption by another for any valid consideration other than benefit to the child. However this may be, a preadoption agreement which undertakes to place a child in any other relation to its foster parent than heir cannot be claimed as a consideration for yielding consent to adoption. If by oral bargain, concealed from the court solemnizing the adoption, a parent may sell his child for a share of the child's prospective patrimony, as the contract in this case contemplated, welfare of children may become a mere incident instead of the desideration of adoption proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marian F. Reimche v. First National Bank of Nevada, of the Estate of Marcus Daly, Iii, Deceased, and Candace Marie Daly, a Minor

2. “are not derogatory to the child's necessary status as heir; on the contrary, they augment his privileges, by disqualifying the adopting parent from depriving him of the property promised, as the parent might do but for the promise.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dillingham v. Schmidt