Ronck v. Ronck’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2006
1 federal appellate · 5 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 In Re Adoption of Howard Clay Hughes · Mahan v. Moore
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“60.6 “A legitimate child cannot be adopted without the consent of its parents, if living, * * * except that consent is not necessary from a father or mother deprived of civil rights or adjudged guilty of cruelty, and for either cause divorced, * * *, or who has been judicially deprived of the custody of the child by any court of competent jurisdiction on account of cruelty or neglect. 60.7 “Where a parent has been adjudged guilty of cruelty or extreme cruelty or gross neglect of duty and divorced or judicially deprived of the custody of a child on account of such cruelty or extreme cruelty or gross neglect of duty, * * * it shall not be necessary to procure the consent of such parent to the adoption of said child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marston v. Marston““The consent of a parent is not required in an adoption proceeding by reason of the provisions of 10 O.S. 1951 § 41 et seq., where such parent has been adjudged guilty of cruelty in a divorce proceeding and a divorce has been granted by reason of said cruelty and the parent has further been denied the care, custody, control and visitation of the child being adopted.” (Emphasis ours)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marston v. Marston““* *. * , It is the' unfitness of the one so adjudged guilty and the absence, by reason thereof, of that parental fitness ■ necessary in determining the., child’s welfare that' his or her. -consent .is not required along with that of the unoffending, parent. * ⅝ „”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of Lear
How this case has been treated — in progress
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