512 So. 2d 1088 - Beard v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2007
8 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 197 So. 2d 570 - Lee v. Kepler · 277 So. 2d 599 - Jones v. Allen · 483 So. 2d 747 - Ramey v. Thomas · 490 So. 2d 1297 - Hamilton v. Beard
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“new family union which the law has created.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judgment of adoption ... has the following effect: * * * * * * (b) it terminates all legal relationships between the adopted person and his relatives, including his natural parents ... so that the adopted person thereafter is a stranger to his former relatives for all purposes... . (c) it creates the relationship between the adopted person and the petitioner and all relatives of the petitioner that would have existed if the adopted person were a legitimate blood descendant of the petitioner ... (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Worley v. Worley
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.