Wathen v. Ugast’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.2d 160 · 1944
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1982
5 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 Van Matre v. Sankey · Stearns v. Allen · Hopkins v. Gifford · Rizo v. Burruel · Woodward v. Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we think the Code implies that the child must be within the court’s control . . . Regardless of the intent of the Code, no court can validly dispose of a child by adoption proceedings unless it has jurisdiction of the child or of the person who is legally entitled to its custody.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eckstein Adoption
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.