Cubley v. Barbee’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Cavanaugh v. Davis (1951), Jones v. Guy (1940)
3 federal appellate · 65 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 Sharkey v. McDermott · Lynn v. Hookaday · Gupton v. Gupton · Grantham v. Gossett · Fisher v. Davidson
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[An estoppel operates] to preclude adoptive parents and their privies from asserting the invalidity of adoption proceedings, or, at least, the status of the adopted child, when, by performance upon the part of the child, the adoptive parents have received all the benefits and privileges accruing from such performance, and they by their representations induced such performance under the belief of the existence of the status of the adopted child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, we are of the opinion that the real classification of the remedy is that of estoppel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[When] one ... takes a child into his home as his own, receiving the benefits accruing to him on account of that relation, assumes the duties and burdens incident thereto, and ... where justice and good faith require it[,] the court will enforce the rights incident to the statutory relation of adoption. The child having performed all the duties pertaining to that relation, the adopting parent will be estopped in equity from denying that he assumed the corresponding obligation.”
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.