Scranton v. Hutter’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1996
13 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 Cranston v. Zook · Roquemore v. Roquemore
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.
“The law should not and cannot ignore the fact that an adopted person may not in many respects be cut off from his natural family. If affection and regard remain between members of a natural family, the law should not in the name of consistency undertake to thwart the expression of these feelings when encouragement thereof does not hinder the adoptive relationships. Scranton v. Hutter (1973), 40 A.D. 2d 296, at 299 , quoting Estate of Zook (1965), 62 Cal. 2d 492 .”
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.