131 Ind. App. 10 - Pointer v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2009
17 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 Heilman v. Heilman · Bruce v. Bissell · Alsman v. Walters · Coquillard v. Coquillard · Scott v. SCOTT, ADMRX.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘to, through and from’ means that property will be transmitted to such child, through such child and from such child as if he were the natural born child of such adopting parent. For the purpose of inheritance such child is born again.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Our statute gives to a child adopted during minority, all of the rights of ‘issue’ and ‘heirs,’ as such terms apply to intestate succession and it is therefore unnecessary to engage in an extended controversy over whether adopted children are in fact ‘issue’ or ‘heirs’ within the general definitions of such terms.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ogborne v. Ogborne“is not necessary to create such an estate, but the intention to create a life estate may be expressed in any equivalent and appropriate language. Pointer v. Lucas, 181 Ind.App. 10, 22 , 169 N.E.2d 196, 202 (1960). Here, Krieg's”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Krieg v. Hieber
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.