Van Derlyn v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1948
23 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 Sewall v. Roberts · Warren v. Prescott · Keegan v. Geraghty · Power v. Hafley · Delano v. Bruerton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law of adoption arbitrarily establishes for the adopted child the relation of heir and next of kin to the adopting parent; but it does not establish such a relation to the descendants of the adopting parent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ultz v. Upham
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.