Depew v. Depew’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2023
1 federal appellate · 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Hughes v. Hughes · 53 Cal. 3d 1271 - Monterey County v. Cornejo · Adoption of Tammy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature of this state believes that every child should be raised in a secure, loving home and finds that adoption is the best way to provide a permanent family for a child whose biological parents are not able or willing to provide for the child's care. . . . The purpose of the Oklahoma Adoption Code is to: 1. Ensure and promote the best interests of the child in adoptions . . .; 2. Affirm that the parent-child relationship is fundamental and that all adoption laws should be fair to the child and to each parent of the child; ... 8. Ensure that children placed for adoption will be raised in stable, permanent loving families whose qualifications for adoption have been properly evaluated in light of the child's needs; . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“families. Id. n. 4. One of the cases cited in that footnote, however, involved the case of two boys whose natural parents had died. Merrill v. Berlin, 316 Mass. 87, 89 , 54 N.E.2d 674 (1944). In that case, the mother's will had indicated her desire that the children be raised by the mother's aunt and her two female cousins. The grandparents petitioned for adoption which was granted. The three female guardians appealed and the appellate court reversed, finding that, although the guardians' home was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Therefore the counselor was concerned as to whether C.D.M.D.'s memory of the event was hers or what others had told her. The counselor said C.D.M.D. was at the gas station by herself when Husband left to pick up Wife. ¶ 10 Husband also argues Wife should not have overnight visitation because she had offered to give up C.D.M.D. for custody of M.C.D. Wife disputed Husband's characterization of the incident, and even Husband's expert suggested Wife's motive might have been to protect the child from”
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.