Fletcher v. Flanary’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2012
20 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 Munday v. Munday's Executors · Dickenson v. Buck
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issue is ordinarily defined as descendants of a common ancestor. . . . To bring an adopted child within the accepted definition of the word 'issue' would certainly place upon the term a very strained construction. . . . Our conclusion is that under our statute 'issue' means natural descendants of a common ancestor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to all intents and purposes the child and heir at law of the person so adopting him or her. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.