Thomas v. Maloney’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Jones v. Guy (1940), Estate of Taggart (1923)
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Hockaday v. Lynn · Sharkey v. McDermott · Healey v. Simpson · Lynn v. Hookaday · Moran v. Stewart
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without any specific agreement to that effect, a child legally adopted will inherit from its adoptive parents in like manner as their lawful issue. . . . This being true, a contract to adopt carries the incidental right of heirship which, as in the case of a natural child, may be cut off only by the will of the adoptive parent.” (p. 198.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hickox v. Johnston
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.