Lynn v. Hookaday’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Hockaday v. Lynn (1906), Cubley v. Barbee (1934)
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 15 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 McFadin v. Catron · Moore v. Wingate · Garvin's Administrator v. Williams · Holman v. Bachus · Bates v. Forcht
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The life of that whole family in reference to this child, from the time she was first taken into it until the death of Mr. Lynn, would have to be construed to be a deception and a fraud, if we would give to it the effect that respondents claim for it. It is argued that her relatives were poor, and that she has had in the family of Mr. Lynn a better home and more refined rearing than she would have had if he had not taken her. That may be;' but it does not follow as a legal conclusion that the reward was all on her side, or even that it was her gain at all. That she took the place of an only daughter in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, and performed her part as such, is the cold fact which the law -regards as sufficient consideration to' support the contract. How much she added to their happiness the law does not undertake to estimate. .* * * Like a bud that has been exit from its natural stem and grafted into a foreign tree, she grew into the family and became a part •of its very life. Everything that adoption contemplates was accomplished. It became a contract fully performed on her part, and the statute of frauds cannot be invoked to her injxxry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Roberts
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.