Thorne v. Padgett’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Clark v. Wade (2001), 227 Ga. App. 648 - Simpson Consulting, Inc. v. Barclays Bank PLC (1997)
36 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Blackburn v. Blackburn · In Re Baby Girl Eason · Chandler v. Cochran · 160 Ga. App. 446 - Kirkland v. Lee
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even an unwed father who demonstrates a commitment to parenthood by participating in the life of his child `acquires substantial protection under the Due Process Clause' of his parental rights,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The majority may believe that it is adopting a relatively unobtrusive means of ensuring that termination proceedings provide `due process of law[,' but] .. . [in] holding that due process requires proof by clear and convincing evidence the majority surely cannot mean that any state scheme passes constitutional muster so long as it applies that standard of proof. A state law permitting termination of parental rights upon a showing of neglect by clear and convincing evidence certainly would not be acceptable to the majority if it provided no procedures other than one 30-minute hearing. Similarly, the majority probably would balk at a state scheme that permitted termination of parental rights on a clear and convincing showing merely that such action would be in the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“distinguish between those cases where the failure to provide support is wilful, and those cases where the parent wishes to provide care and support for his child, but lacks the financial resources or ability to do so”
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.