Friehe v. Schaad’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably In Re the Adoption of A.A.T. (2008), In Re Interest of Natasha H. (1999)
43 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Stanley v. Illinois · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"On January 1, 1997, the Putative Father Registry Act became effective. The Act directs the Department of Human Resources to establish a registry of fathers of children born out of wedlock. § 26-10C-1. The registry includes a putative father's name, Social Security number, date of birth, and address. § 26-10C-1(a). Names are gathered from two sources: adjudications of paternity in Alabama courts and the courts of other states, and voluntary filings from men who wish to claim paternity or who have already acknowledged a child through legitimization, as provided for in § 26-11-1 through § 26-11-3. § 26-10C-1(a). "Upon an adjudication of paternity, the Alabama courts are required to supply the registry with the pertinent information. § 26-10C-1(b). If, pursuant to the Act, a putative father wishes to file a notice of intent to claim paternity, he must include the prescribed information about himself, the mother, the infant, and the possible dates of conception. § 26-10C-1(c). Failure to file a notice of intent to claim paternity before the child's birth or within 30 days after the child's birth will result in the father's being deemed to have given irrevocable implied consent to any adoption proceeding. § 26-10C-1(f). If he files a notice of intent to claim paternity, the putative father is entitled to notice of the pendency of an adoption proceeding involving the child. § 26-10C-1(f). Also, a notice, once filed, can be revoked at any time. § 26-10C-1(d). An unrevoked notice may”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“{hJis own failure to act upon the notice given to him deprived him of the opportunity to be heard”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.