Hamby v. Hamby’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably In Re Juvenile Appeal (1982), In Interest of FH (1979)
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 Bevis v. Bevis · DRIGGERS ET UX. v. Jolley · McCormick v. McMurray
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.
“abandonment imports any conduct on the part of the parent which evinces a settled purpose to forego all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such conscious disregard and indifference [by a parent] to his parental obligations as to evince a settled purpose to forego his obligation and duties to his child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not include an act or course of condu[c]t by a parent which is done through force of circumstances or dire necessity.”
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.