Johnson v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2011
21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 146 Ind. App. 497 - Allstate Insurance v. Morrison · Watson v. Strohl · Blade Corp. v. American Drywall, Inc. · Hoey v. McCarthy · State Ex Rel. Jones v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instant action however was not brought for the purpose of establishing or modifying a custody decree, but rather, to terminate all parental rights of the mother. Termination of parental rights is a statutory mechanism which permits a child to be adopted without the consent of a parent.... As such, jurisdiction for the termination of parental rights is not encompassed by the UCCJA, but instead, is properly determined under the adoption statutes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any poor person not having sufficient means to prosecute or defend any action may apply to the court in which the action is intended to be brought ..., for leave to prosecute or defend as a poor person....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is properly determined under the adoption statutes.”
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.