Denton v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 144 W. Va. 478 - Bond v. Bond (1959), Vallimont v. Medford (1958)
30 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 Watson v. Jones · Dreyer v. Schrick · Crews v. Sheldon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Man has no higher right or interest or happiness than that for which the words family and home stand. . . . The interest which a parent has in the nurture of his own offspring, and in nearness to them for that purpose, lies in a different plane from that occupied by property .... On the child’s side, it has no higher welfare than to be reared by its parents.” p. 735.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the parents of such minor shall have been divorced, the consent of the parent to whom custody of such child shall have been awarded shall be necessary to authorize an order of adoption, but the consent of the other parent, though desirable, shall not be necessary.” (R,. S. 38-106.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Turning to the adoption statute, it will be observed that nobody is required to appear at an adoption proceeding who is not required to consent to it, and the reason for appearance must be found in the reason for consent.””
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.