25 Ariz. App. 10 - Anonymous v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably In Re Juvenile Appeal (1982), Michael J. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (2000)
68 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 Glendinning v. McComas · Adoption of Oukes · Adoption of K. B. I. D. v. v. M. G. · D. M. v. State · Southard Adoption Case
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““B. Evidence sufficient to justify the termination of the parent-child relationship shall include any one of the following, and in considering any of the following grounds, the court may also consider the needs of the child: “1. That the parent has abandoned the child or that the parent has made no effort to maintain a parental relationship with the child. It shall be presumed the parent intends to abandon the child if the child has been left without any provision for support and without any communication from such parent for a period of six months or longer. If in the opinion of the court the evidence indicates that such parent has made only token efforts to support or communicate with the child, the court may declare the child abandoned by such parent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Abandonment is conduct. The typical kinds of conduct which constitute abandonment are the withholding of parental presence, love, care, filial affection and support and maintenance. The conduct must be intentional and must show a settled purpose to relinquish all parental rights in the child. Non-support is not synonymous with abandonment but it is a factor in determining whether a parent has abandoned his child. [Citation omitted] Lack of support plus other conduct such as a failure to communicate by letter or telephone, or absence of sending of gifts is sufficient to uphold the trial court’s conclusion that a child had been abandoned.’ ” 25 Ariz.App. at 12 , 540 P.2d at 743 , quoting Sernaker v. Ehrlich, 86 Nev. 277, 279 , 468 P.2d 5, 7 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although the best interest of the child is a valid factor in deciding an abandonment issue, it cannot be the sole basis for termination. Rather, the appropriate test is whether there has been a conscious disregard of the obligations owed by a parent to a child, leading to the destruction of the parent-child relationship. [ Anonymous, supra]. As these terms are somewhat elastic, issues of abandonment and intent are generally questions of fact to be resolved by the trial court.”
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.