Quirk v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 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 Hunter v. City of Des Moines · In Re the Marriage of Gulsvig · In Re the Name of Staros · State v. Foster · State v. Iowa District Court for Polk County
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mother does not have the absolute right to name the child because of custody due to birth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. That the [nonconsenting] parent has abandoned the child; 2. That the [nonconsenting] parent has been ordered to contribute to the support of the child or to financially aid in the child’s birth and has failed to do so without good cause; or 3. That the [nonconsenting] parent does not object to the name change after having been given due and proper notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should gain no advantage from her unilateral act in naming the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. PETIT VS. ADRIANZEN
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.