In Re Adoption No. 9979’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]his subsection does not prohibit the payment, by any interested person, of reasonable and customary charges or fees for hospital or medical or legal services.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Runkles · (2000)

2. “Describing a natural parent who signs a consent form and turns over a child for adoption as one who "renders any service in connection with the placement of a [child]," may not be the warmest possible prose, but it literally does include the natural parents. Indeed, it might be difficult to think of anyone capable of performing a greater "service in connection with the placement" than the natural parents.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. (2000)

3. “intended to address a concern raised by a representative of the Maryland State's Attorneys' Association that current law does not explicitly prohibit baby selling by a parent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Runkles