Akers v. Hard’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1986
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sease v. City of Spartanburg · Gainey v. Coker's Pedigreed Seed Co. · Costas v. Florence Printing Co. · Greneker v. Sprouse · Red Oak Lands, Inc. v. Lane
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.
“Adoptions in South Carolina are purely statutory; the process by which an adoption takes place is determined by the General Assembly. When an agency acquires custody of a child with the right to consent to adoption, statutory law provides that there can be no adoption without the consent. Akers, 267 S. E. (2d) at 537 , footnote 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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