Gamble v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1992
21 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 Allen v. Pugh · In Re: Estate of Hewitt · Bradley v. Tweedy · Franklin v. White · Reeves v. Lowe
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]nd the child shall be invested with the rights of inheritance to real estate, or to the distribution of personal estate on the death of such adopting parent or parents as if born to them in lawful wedlock. . . . (1931 Ala. Acts. No. 405, p. 504)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To accept the view of appellant is to hold that an adoptive parent may not only make another his heir, but he can also make an heir to his collateral kin without their knowledge and consent. There are many cases which refuse to accept such a construction of their statute ... The authorities are legion and the arguments all strongly oppose a different theory of construction.”
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.