Corbin v. Reimen’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
December 2011
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 28 Wash. App. 637 - In Re the Marriage of Allen · In Re Parentage of LB · In Re Custody of Shields · C.E.W. v. D.E.W. · 56 Wash. App. 356 - In the Matter of Custody of Stell
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.
“[t]he statutory void confronting us in L.B. is absent here. As did the parties in L.B., [M.F.'s natural parents] chose to have children and form a family. But unlike in L.B., [the natural parents'] status as legal parents was established at the outset. In contrast, Corbin entered M.F.'s life as a stepparent, a third party to M.F.'s two existing parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[H]ere, the petitioner is a third-party to the two already existing parents, which places him in a very different position than the respondent in L.B. These differences, as well as the presence of a statutory remedy available to Corbin, support our conclusion that the de facto parentage doctrine should not extend to the circumstances in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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