D'AUGUSTINE v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2014
14 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 Hamby v. Hamby · Bevis v. Bevis · Goff v. Benedict · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recognizing that the question of abandonment is largely one of intent to be determined in each case from all the facts and circumstances, we have held that, ‘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,’ 2 Am. Jur. (2d), Adoption, Section 32; but ‘does not include an act or course of conduct by a parent which is done through force of circum stances or dire necessity,’ 2 Am. Jur. (2d), Adoption, Section 33.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The preponderance of the testimony sustains the conclusion that appellant did not wilfully fail NitfBisit and support his child but was prevented fWKm doing so by the remarriage of the mother her removal of the child . . . for several years where the antagonistic attitude of respondents made visitation inadvisable, if not impossible.”
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.