Glendinning v. McComas’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 25 Ariz. App. 10 - Anonymous v. Anonymous (1975), Chapin v. Cummings (1940)
54 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 · Purinton v. Jamrock · Guardianship of Snowball · Allison v. Bryan · Lacher v. Venus
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`has failed to contribute any sum whatsoever to the support and education of his soon and has failed to provide any necessaries for said child'. . . The present case must not be confused with a habeas-corpus case. In a case of that character the welfare of the child is the paramount issue, and no question as to termination of the parental relation is involved; whereas in an adoption proceeding the question is whether all the facts, including the interest of the child, are sufficient to warrant the court in completely severing and destroying the natural relation between the parent and child and substituting an artificial status between the child and another person as parent. Manifestly, the rights of the natural parent are of more importance in the latter case than in the former.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While the penal statute as to abandonment of a child by the father. . . may be considered, it is not the criterion here. The adoption statute, so far as it embraced the subject of abandonment, was enacted before the penal statute, and was not qualified thereby. While it may be true that in some respects the statute as to adoption may be liberally construed, ... it must be construed strictly against the applicant and favorably to the parent.” Glendinning v. McComas, 188 Ga. 345, 346 ( 3 SE2d 562 ) (1939); Johnson v. Strickland, supra, at 284.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beatty v. Wilkerson“Under [adoption] statutes providing that abandonment may render such [statutory written consent] unnecessary, it is generally held that the abandonment must be such as to show a settled purpose to forego all parental duties and claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.