In Re White’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1969 · most notably In re Adoption of a Minor (1944), 77 Cal. App. 2d 805 - Adoption of McDonnell (1947)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 State ex rel. Platzer v. Beardsley · Nelms v. Birkland · Albring v. Ward · Slattery v. Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * that under the circumstances of this case, no vested rights having intervened, the natural mother had the right to withdraw her consent * *”
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.