Foster v. Cheek’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 162 W. Va. 502 - Wheeling Dollar Savings & Trust Co. v. Singer (1978), Brantley v. Skeens (1959)
6 federal appellate · 18 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 De Sylva v. Ballentine · Crawford v. Wilson · Savannah Bank & Trust Co. v. Wolff · Rieves v. Smith · Taylor v. Boles
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize that the Congress can define and in a number of cases has defined, the word `child' in its acts. However, in the instant case, neither the Federal Group Life Insurance Act nor the insurance contract has defined that term as used in the act in question. There being no Federal law of domestic relations, which is primarily a matter of state concern, * * * we must look to the law of this State in order to determine whether or not the defendant in error in the instant case occupies the position of a `child' under the provisions of the act above referred to and the policy of insurance involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brantley v. Skeens“[U]nder a virtual adoption, no relationship of parent and child is created, but it is only a court-given name to a status arising from and created by contract...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had the adopter performed his contractual obligation to formally and legally adopt the child involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pangarova v. Nichols
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.