Patton v. Shamburger’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1981
14 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 Patton v. Shamburger
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon legal adoption, the family relationship between the natural parent and the adopted children cease and determine. Our holding is that they are no longer ‘minor children’ of the natural father under the workmen’s compensation statute but are the minor children of the adoptive father and his wife, the natural mother of the children.””
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.