O'Connor v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Rose v. Dunn (1984), Estate of Radovich (1957)
44 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 Bray v. Timms · Spradling v. Spradling · Morris v. Dooley · Ammonette v. Black · West v. West
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden is on the person claiming the benefit of an alleged contract for adoption to establish it by clear, cogent and convincing evidence. ”. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Bradford“`He who comes into equity must come with clean hands,' or, as it is sometimes expressed, `He that hath committed iniquity shall not have equity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albright v. Karston
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.