Brown v. Beachler’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1977 · most notably Wible v. Wible (1964), Adams v. Purtlebaugh (1952)
38 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 Duckworth v. Duckworth · Berkshire v. Caley · Gilmore v. Kitson · Bryan v. Lyon · Schleuter v. Canatsy
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principles of the welfare of the child may be applied to defeat the claims of a parent when the parent has voluntarily relinquished to others the care and custody of the child until the affections of the child and its foster parent have become so interwoven that tp sever them would seriously mar and endanger the future happiness and welfare of the child. Gilmore v. Kitson (1905), 165 Ind. 402, 407, 408 , 74 N. E. 1083 ; Sckleuter v. Canatsy (1897), 148 Ind. 384 , 47 N. E. 825 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glass v. Bailey
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.