Strobel v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1991
7 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 Williams Et Ux. v. Capparelli · Dugger v. Lauless
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the legislature has enacted statutes prescribing how adoptions shall be accomplished, this court has no power to change in any particular the law as expressed in those statutes... . The role of this court is limited to construing the adoption statutes and attempting to ascertain the meaning of the legislature as expressed therein.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. B. J. B. A. v. M. J. B. · So v. Ws
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.