Holley v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 642 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 645 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Texas Department of Human Services v. Boyd (1987), In the Interest of G. M. (1980)
1 federal appellate · 642 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 Garza v. Alviar · Legate v. Legate · Wiley v. Spratlan · Mumma v. Aguirre · Herrera v. Herrera
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 645 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the desires of the child; (2) the emotional and physical needs of the child now and in the future; (3) the emotional and physical danger to the child now and in the future; (4) the parental abilities of the individuals seeking custody; (5) the programs available to assist these individuals to promote the best interest of the child; (6) the plans for the child by these individuals or by the agency seeking custody; (7) the stability of the home or proposed placement; (8) the acts or omissions of the parent which may indicate that the existing parent-child relationship is not a proper one; and (9) any excuse for the acts or omissions of the parent.”
106 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The desires of the child and the emotional and physical needs of the child now and in the future; (2) the emotional and physical danger to the child now and in the future; (3) the parental abilities of the individual seeking custody, and the programs available to assist this individual to promote the best interest of the child; (4) the plans for the child by the individual seeking custody, and the stability of the proposed home; (5) the acts or omissions of the parents that may indicate that the existing parent-child relationship is not a proper one; and (6) any excuse for the acts or omissions of the parents.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“engaged in conduct or knowingly placed the child with persons who engaged in conduct which endangers the physical or emotional well-being of the child_”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.