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← 338 MD 118 - Green v. Sollenberger

Green v. Sollenberger’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
September 2002
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Petrini v. Petrini · In Re Adoption/Guardianship No. 10941 · Carroll County Department of Social Services v. Edelmann · Bridges v. Nicely · In Re Adoption No. A91-71A

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

  1. “purports to endow adopted children with an altered status [2] as a result of the adoption, the objective being to add, or at least to substitute, a new legal relationship in place of the old one.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “no new rights or obligations attach as a result of the adoption.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is voidable and subject to collateral attack at any time”
    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.