Rhodes v. Quantrell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2015
6 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 Crawford v. Wilson · Taylor v. Boles · Bird v. Trapnell · Ansley v. Ansley · Crum v. Fendig
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essential elements of “virtual adoption” are an agreement between the person or persons having custody of the child and the “adopting” parent that the child shall be adopted and a change in the status of the child wherein there is a severance of the actual relationship of parent and child as between the child and the person or persons having custody and the assumption of that relationship between the child and the adopting parent or parents. [Cits.] Before a recovery based upon an alleged oral contract to adopt will be authorized, proof of such contract must be made out so clearly, strongly and satisfactorily “as to leave no reasonable doubt as to the agreement.” [Cits.] In addition to proof of the contract, that is, the agreement to adopt, there must be clear and convincing proof of performance in accordance with the terms of the contract. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Howard“Before a recovery based upon an alleged oral contract to adopt will be authorized, proof of such contract must be made out so clearly, strongly and satisfactorily “as to leave no reasonable doubt as to the agreement.” [Cits.] [Rhodes v. Quantrell, 227 Ga. 761 ( 183 SE2d 207 ) (1971).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Gurley
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.