24 Ark. App. 92 - Manuel v. McCorkle’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 2016 Ark. App. 186 - Newkirk v. Hankins (2016), 93 Ark. App. 424 - Neel v. Harrison (2005)
30 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 Pender v. McKee · 17 Ark. App. 253 - Watts v. Watts · Bush v. Dietz · Dixon v. Dixon · Watkins v. Dudgeon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Consent to adoption is not required of: (2) A parent of a child in the custody of another, if the parent for a period of at least one (1) year has failed significantly without justifiable cause (i) to communicate with the child or (ii) to provide for the care and support of the child as required by law or judicial decree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Milam · Waldrip v. Davis“It has been stated that this preference for the natural parents is based on the presumption that they will take care of their children, bring them up properly, and treat them with kindness and affection, but when that presumption has been dissipated the courts will interfere and place the child where those duties will be discharged by someone more willing and able to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Apel v. Cummings
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.