Williams v. T. S. W.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2005
7 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 Murphy v. Carron · 239 Mo. App. 1036 - Adoption of Mary, Marilyn Shelton and Ernest Wall · In the Interest of S. K. L. v. Smith · In Re Mayernik · Adoption of McKinzie
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prior to the 1947 revamping of the adoption procedure, Missouri required continuing consent to adoption. There was, therefore, a right to withdraw consent. Application of Graham, 239 Mo.App. 1036 , 199 S.W.2d 68 (1946). This was, at that time, the majority rule. Id. at 73; Annotation, 138 A.L.R. 1038 (1942). With the passage of the present § 453.050, RSMo 1978, in 1947, consent was made irrevocable ‘without leave of the court.’ This has been interpreted as giving the trial court ‘the discretionary power and responsibility of determining whether the consent should be revoked.’ In re Mayernik, 292 S.W.2d 562, 570 (Mo.1956).” Matter of P.A.W., 623 S.W.2d 592, 594 (Mo.App.1981).”
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.