483 So. 2d 747 - Ramey v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2013
7 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 Mize v. State · 382 So. 2d 78 - Ramey v. Thomas · 257 So. 2d 623 - Morrison v. Smith · In re the Adoption of Gaskins
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judgment of adoption ... terminates all legal relationships between the adopted person and his relatives ... so that the adopted person thereafter is a stranger to his former relatives for all purposes... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]omewhat ambiguous regarding maintaining the status of grandparents through a natural parent in the context of stepparent adoptions... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Surely a child's welfare is promoted in most cases by having grandparents, rather than by not having them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griss v. Griss
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.