Hemphill v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2016
10 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 114 Ohio St. 241 - Cleveland Trust Co. v. Scobie · Black v. J. W. Zacharie & Co. · In Re Estate of Hutchison · State Ex Rel. Standard Tank Car Co. v. Sullivan · Kindred v. Anderson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... but even if the Missouri law did prevail, it would not aid the defendant, for the doctrine of equitable adoption cannot be applied to an oral contract to adopt a person who was an adult at the time the oral contract was made." Allowing the claim of Duane F. Miller that he be declared the virtually adopted child of the decedent herein would expand the concept of "virtual adoption" beyond the purpose for which it was conceived and open the door of the probate courts to fraudulent and frivolous claims of persons who have assisted and befriended the elderly during the last years of their life. The Florida Probate Code determines the right to take real or personal property by inheritance. "Virtual adoption" is an exception which was conceived to protect the interests of minors, who, having no voice in the matter, were given by their natural parents to adoptive parents based upon an oral agreement to allow the child to inherit from the adoptive parents, if they died intestate.”
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.