Ethredge v. Yawn’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 755 So. 2d 1077 - SNc v. JRD, JR. (2000), In Re Marriage of Leverock & Hamby (2009)
49 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 493 So. 2d 952 - Rutland v. Pridgen · 473 So. 2d 174 - Bryant v. Cameron · Milam v. Milam · Hibbette v. Baines
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any conduct by a parent which evinces a settled purpose to forego all duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“`not how we would have decided the case ab initio but whether there would be credible proof from which a rational trier of fact [] may have found' as it did.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“where on review it is apparent the court below has misapprehended the controlling rules of law or has acted pursuant to a substantially erroneous view of the law, we will proceed de novo and promptly reverse.”
4 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.