5 Kan. App. 2d 392 - Treiber v. Stong’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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.

1. ““[I]f the parental rights of a natural father of an illegitimate child have not been severed and those rights have been asserted by him, he has preference to custody of the child over prospective adoptive parents unless he has failed or refused to assume his parental duties for two consecutive years. In re Lathrop, 2 Kan. App. 2d 90 , 575 P.2d 894 (1978); K.S.A. 59-2102(3).” p. 395.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Adoption of Baby Boy L.

2. ““The irrevocability of a consent under K.S.A. 59-2102 applies to disputes between a natural parent or parents and the prospective adoptive parents and the consent, when withdrawn, is not binding on the consenting parent in a custody dispute between the natural parents.” Syl. f 3.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Adoption of Baby Boy L.

3. “[a]s between the natural parents, a consent to adoption given by one of them to a third party is not binding on the other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Adoption of Trent