Wallace v. Noland’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Barnhart v. Barnhart (1953), In Re Estate of Tilliski (1945)
32 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 Hockaday v. Lynn · Keegan v. Geraghty · Bradsby v. Wallace · Butterfield v. Sawyer · Carpenter v. Browning
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other respects than the right of inheriting from the adopting parent the adopted child is unlike children by birth. By adoption he acquires no right to inherit from any one else than the adopting parents. (Keegan v. Geraghty, 101 Ill. 26 .) In that case it was said adoption creates an artificial relation between the parties to the transaction. `As we construe the statute, as between the parties to the transaction, the adopted child is deemed, for the purpose of inheritance from the adoptive parents, their child, the same as if he had been born to them in lawful wedlock.' It has been said in a number of cases that an adopted child is regarded, in law, as a child only for the purpose of inheritance from the adopting parent, and not the child, in fact, of such adopting parent.”
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.