593 So. 2d 1176 - Kupec v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2013
5 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 Sheffield v. Barry · In Re: Adoption of Carol Palmer · 132 So. 2d 9 - Tsilidis v. Pedakis · Wright v. Brown · 502 So. 2d 531 - Kelley v. Flagship National Bank of Boynton Beach
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Equitable adoption] is applied in an intestate estate to give effect to the intent of the decedent to adopt and provide for the child. If no legal adoption occurred and [stepfather] were to die intestate, [child] could use the theory of equitable adoption to inherit a share.of his estate. However, application of this doctrine does not change his status to that of a legally adopted child. Equitable adoption could only affect his rights against the intestate estate of [stepfather]. It does not affect his rights against the intestate estate of his natural father....”
2 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.