In re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1993
6 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 Hyman v. Stanley · In Re Smith · State ex rel. Dorsey v. Kelly
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any such surrender or transfer is made without first obtaining such order, such court shall, on petition of any public official or interested person, agency, organization, or institution, order an investigation and report as described in section 453.070 to be completed by the division of family services and shall make such order as to the custody of such child as may be for the best interest thereof”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This section shall not be construed to prohibit the placing of a child in a family home for care by any parent * * * if the right to supervise the care of the child and to resume custody thereof is retained. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KWS“* * * was to put an end to the indiscriminate transfer of children; the concept that a parent could pass them on like chattels to a new owner * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re KWS
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.