Kilby v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 699 · 1956
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Chernock v. Gardner (1966), 239 F. Supp. 608 - Davis v. Celebrezze (1965)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Harvey Adoption Case · Lehmann v. Acheson · Curtis Company (Formerly Curtis Engineering Company) v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Williams v. Gartner & Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * By this paper the mother stated that the child had been given by her to Mr. and Mrs. Kilby ‘to be adopted by them as soon as is legally permitted’ and relinquished all claims she had to the child. The Kilbys immediately assumed responsibility for the little girl. They sent out announcements of her birth as if born to them; Mr. Kilby made Jane a contingent beneficiary of his life insurance policies which ran to Mrs. Kilby as beneficiary. He claimed her as a dependent ‘daughter’ in his income tax return. The Kilbys gave the child their own name and in all respects treated her as their own.” [ 238 F.2d 700 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There seems no difficulty in finding a consensual transaction between the natural mother and the foster parents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.