Sharp v. Thurman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably In Re the Adoption of B.M.W. (2000), In Re the Adoption of A.A.T. (2008)
2 district · 50 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 Waters v. Zweygardt · Shumway v. Farley
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provisions of K. S. A. 59-2102 (3) are construed, and the term ‘two consecutive years’ as used therein is held to refer to the period next preceding the filing of a petition for adoption.” (Syl. f 3.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case of In re P. (Infants), [1962], 1 Weekly L. R. 1296 (C. D.), the term 'obligations of a parent’ was construed to include not only the common-law or statutory duty to maintain a child in the financial or economic sense but also to include the natural and moral duty of a parent to show affection, care and interest toward his child. The court held that the natural mother’s consent was unnecessary, notwithstanding the fact she had occasionally sent gifts, contributed some financial support, and had visited her children on three occasions during the three years next preceding the filing of the application for adoption.” (p. 507.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herbst v. Compton““Although a natural parent under a divorce decree is given only rights of visitation with minor children, we are not prepared to say that all the other privileges, duties and obligations of parenthood are thereby excluded. The simple acts whereby a parent may manifest normal affection, care and interest in a child are ordinarily not judicially proscribed. The door is left ajar for the parent to maintain the remaining thread of the parent-child relationship. The exercise of the right of visitation is only one of the many factors to be considered by the court in its ultimate determination.” p. 508.”
1 later decision 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.