Yopp v. Batt’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Eicher v. Mid America Financial Investment Corp. (2005), In Re Adoption of Luke (2002)
26 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 Kenyon v. Larsen · Gray v. Maxwell · Kellie v. LUTHERAN FAMILY & SOC. SERV., ETC. · Lum v. Mattley · Auman v. Toomey
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.
“When a child shall have been relinquished by written instrument ... to the Department of Health and Human Services or to a licensed child placement agency ... the person so relinquishing shall be relieved of all parental duties toward and all responsibilities for such child and have no rights over such child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.