55 Ala. App. 366 - Davis v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1992
14 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 Evans v. Rosser
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.
“[I]f the court is satisfied that the natural parents have just cause for desiring to be relieved of the care, support and guardianship of said child, or have abandoned the child, or are morally unfit to retain its custody, that the petitioning foster parent or parents is or are financially able and morally fit to have the care, supervision and training of such child, that such child is suitable for adoption in a private family home and that such change of name and guardianship is for the best interest of such child, it shall make an interlocutory order setting forth the facts and declaring that from the date of the final order of adoption in such case, if such final order be afterwards entered as provided in this section, such child, to all legal intents and purposes, will be the child of the petitioner or petitioners and that its name may be thereby changed. . . . [S]uch final order of adoption shall not be granted until the child shall have lived for six months in the home of the petitioner subsequent to the issuance of the interlocutory order. . . . (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision 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.