Risner v. Risner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1993
18 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 Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co. · Rhodes v. Shirley · 83 Ind. App. 456 - In Re Perry
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finality of an adoption decree is necessary so that the established rules of intestate secession and succession may apply with certainty to adopted children. Furthermore, finality of such decrees is desirable in order to prevent the emotional strain which would otherwise be imposed upon both the adoptive child and parents, making it difficult for a normal parent-child relationship to develop. The need for removing an emotional stress from adoption cases, insofar as possible, was considered by this court in Rhodes et al. v. Shirley et al. (1955), 234 Ind. 587, 597 , 129 N.E.2d 60, 64 , wherein it is stated: “Few really considerate prospective parents would take a child into their hearts and homes and expose either the child or themselves to the heartache of a child’s removal from their homes, after mutual ties of affection had been established, if such removal were possible for no other reason than that the natural parents had changed their minds.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Insofar, as there was no res over which the court could have had jurisdiction, the action was in personam in nature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minary v. Minary
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.