Gessner v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2018
7 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 Goodstein v. Levy · 231 So. 2d 50 - Powell v. Gessner · Parker v. Blaine
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statement in In re Levy, supra , that the adoption statute does not "limit or take away rights already in existence" must be interpreted in context, namely, with respect to the right of adoptees to inherit from blood relatives as well as from their adoptive parents and adoptive brothers and sisters as expressly authorized by § 731.30, Fla. Stat. 1969.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"After the adoption the natural parents, if living, are relieved of all legal duties and obligations due from them to the child and are divested of all rights with respect to the child ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DePrycker v. Brown“"... a decree of adoption has the effect of severing the legal ties between a child and his natural parents, except for the inheritance right expressly reserved," by the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DePrycker v. Brown
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.