Platt v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2007
22 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 Matter of Cozza · 25 Cal. App. 651 - Matter of Petition of Kelly · Truelove v. Parker · Kelly v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as otherwise provided in this section, no adoption shall be permitted except with the written consent of the living parents of the child; provided, ■ however, that if a living parent or parents shall voluntarily abandon and desert a child sought to be adopted, for a period of two (2) years, and shall have left such child to the care, custody, control and management of other persons, or if such parent or parents shall have not contributed substantially to the support of such child during such period of two (2) years commensurate with his financial ability, then, in either event, it shall not be necessary to obtain the written consent of the living parent or parents in such default, and in such cases adoption shall be permitted on the written consent of the Judge of the Juvenile Court of the county of such child’s residence; or if there be no Juvenile Court, then on the written consent of the Judge of the County Court of the county of such child’s residence.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Abandonment’ of a child by a parent which will authorize adoption of child on written consent of judge without the consent of parent consists of an absolute relinquishment of custody of child and willful intention to relinquish benefit of parent’s legal rights.” “The fact that parent permits child to remain for a time in undisturbed care of others does no constitute such abandonment of child as would deprive parent of right to prevent its adoption by others.” “In a contested adoption case in absence of satisfactory showing of a parent’s written consent, or allegations and proof of such conditions as amount to an abandonment of desertion of child, court is not authorized to permit adoption and has no discretion to consider interests of child in disregard of wishes of parent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burran v. Fuller
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.