Lehmen v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 1986
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 238 Mo. App. 1104 - In Re Watson v. Watson · 234 Mo. App. 716 - In Re Perkins v. Brownlee · Adoption of RAB v. RAB · S. C. H. v. C. W. H. · Lambertus v. Santino
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) A parent who has for a period of at least six months, for a child one year of age or older, or at least sixty days, for a child under one year of age, immediately prior to the filing of the petition for adoption, willfully abandoned the child or, for a period of at least six months immediately prior to the filing of the petition for adoption, willfully, substantially and continuously neglected to provide him with necessary care and protection; *”
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.