Application of Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2006
21 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 State Ex Rel. Ross v. General American Life Insurance · Application of Maples · State v. Virgilito · Griggs v. Miller · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Bierman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n receiving such evidence, the court must be mindful that evidence of one’s religious beliefs may not require opening the [adoption] record if it results in preferential treatment for one professing such belief, because the granting of privilege to one religious denomination not enjoyed equally by others could in itself be constitutionally suspect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Philip S.
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.