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← 473 S.W.2d 239 - Lowrey v. Botello

Lowrey v. Botello’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2016

4 state decisions

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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 Cavanaugh v. Davis · Liedeker v. Grossman · Wilde v. Buchanan · First State Bank v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Co. of New York · Calvert v. Johnston

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It would not have been unnatural when viewed in the light of common knowledge and experience for this aunt to take her orphaned infant niece and rear her to maturity, giving her all the care and advantages of which the aunt was capable, receiving in return that which was justly due in the way of affection and normal services, without any agreement or intention on the part of the aunt to adopt the child and thereby make her a legal heir to property. Someone had to care for the respondent or she would have become a charge upon the public.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hall v. Richardson
  2. “[t]he question here is raised, as is ordinarily true in such cases, when the lips of the alleged adopter have been sealed by death and in an effort to establish an interest in property. Such claims should be received with caution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hall v. Richardson

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.