Mahan v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2001
13 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 Sango v. Sango · Newberry v. Newberry · Hughes v. Bowen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A legitimate child caijnot be adopted without the consent of its parents, if living, nor an illegitimate child without the consent of its mother, if living, except that consent is not necessary from a father or mother deprived of civil rights or adjudged guilty of adultery, or of cruelty, and. for either cause divorced or adjudged to' be an habitual drunkard, ór’.who has been judiciously deprived of the custody of the child, qn account of cruelty or neglect.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““By 10 O. S. 1941 §54, the natural rights of parents are ended by adoption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Moulin
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.