Weitzel v. Weitzel’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
3
states following
March 1986
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Estate of Coe · Mooney v. Tolles · 116 Ohio St. 668 - Albright v. Albright · Smyth v. . McKissick · Bradford v. Johnson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The stranger-to-the-adoption presumption is unfair, inequitable, and has no reationship to the actual attitude and experience of the general public, the courts and students of adoption, and therefore should be avoided either by judicial action or by legislative fiat.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.