Adkison v. Adkison’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2006
17 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 White v. Ward · Peoples v. Seamon · McWhorter Transfer Co. v. Peek · McEvoy v. McEvoy · Brown v. Brown
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * Abbott's Dictionary of Terms and Phrases defines `abandonment' as the relinquishment, surrender, or disclaimer of one's rights, and says: `But the surrender of a relation, involving as it does the disclaimer of duties more prominently than that of rights, is better styled desertion,' and defines `desertion' as `the abandonment of a relation or service in which one owes duties; the quitting, wilfully and without right, one's duties; the withdrawal, unexcused, from the obligations of some condition or status.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The right of action for a child's wrongful death was unknown to the common law. It is the creation of a statute (§ 119 in this case), and its precepts chart the strict course which we are enjoined to follow in its application to the facts of this case. Taylor v. City of Clanton, 245 Ala. 671 , 18 So.2d 369 ; Giles v. Parker, 230 Ala. 119, 123 , 159 So. 826 ; White v. Ward, 157 Ala. 345 , 47 So. 166 , 18 L.R.A. (n.s.) 568; Smith v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co., 75 Ala. 449 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`We do not construe the conduct of the father to evince a settled purpose to forego all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child. . . . The father's failure to comply with the order for support of the child, under the circumstances here presented, and his failure to visit the child under existing misunderstandings in the family, does not in our judgment, constitute abandonment within the purview of Section 3, Title 27, Code of 1940.'”
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.