Eck v. Eck’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1991
11 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 Arnold v. Leonard · Underwriters v. Kirby Lumber Co. · Harle v. Harle · State Ex Rel. Walton v. Yturria · Brooks Bank & Trust Co. v. Rorabacher
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establishing legal relations between the children and adopted parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nail v. Thompson“inherit from the collateral or lineal kindred of the adoptive parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nail v. Thompson
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.