232 So. 2d 548 - In re Daigle’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1998
4 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 Ackenhausen · In Re LaFitte · 201 So. 2d 222 - In re Adoption of Moody
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f it were possible to pay upon an ar-rearage in the twelfth month of each year and thereby defeat each effort of the adoptive step-parent to adopt children he is attempting to be a father to, the intent of the legislature ... would surely be defeated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of JJJ · In re J.J.J.
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.