43 Ind. App. 607 - Leonard v. Honisfager’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 134 Ind. App. 480 - In RE ADOPTION OF BRYANT v. Kurtz (1963), Emons v. DINELLI (1956)
41 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The subject of the adoption of children is governed exclusively by statute, and the statutory provisions of the different states on the subject are so widely variant that the decisions of courts of other states construing their statutes on the subject can afford little or no light on the proper construction to be given to ours. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. Shirley
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.