337 So. 2d 355 - Davis v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 407 So. 2d 559 - Ex Parte Sullivan (1981), Ex Parte Bronstein (1983)
31 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 Susko Adoption Case · Williams v. Pope · Hanks v. Hanks · Barney v. Hutchinson · Prince v. Prince
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.
“"[a]doption is not merely an arrangement between a natural and adoptive parents, but is a status created by the state acting as parents patriae, the sovereign parent.... "Under the Alabama statute it is the state's sovereign power, manifested by court decree, which brings the adoption to pass. The consent of the natural parent is not the instrument of adoption: rather, the giving of consent at some point is one of the prerequisites to the probate court's consideration of the subject matter."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Adoption is not merely an arrangement between the natural parents and adoptive parents, but is a status created by the state acting as parens patriae, the sovereign parent. Because the exercise of sovereign power involved in adoption curtails the fundamental rights of the natural parent[s], the adoption statutes must be closely adhered to.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No adoption of a minor child shall be permitted without the consent of his parents, but the consent of a parent . . who has lost guardianship of the child . . . by order of a juvenile court or court of like jurisdiction, may be dispensed with, and consent may be given by the guardian if there be one, or if there be no guardian by the state department of public welfare." [Emphasis supplied.]”
4 later decisions 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.