Shoemaker v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.2d 208 · 1933
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Wong v. Di Grazia (1963), Riggs National Bank of Washington v. Summerlin (1971)
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 8 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 Robert v. . Corning · Britton v. Thornton · Barber v. Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. · Armstrong v. Barber · Brandenburg v. Thorndike
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on any judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia to hear and determine any petition that may be presented by a person or a husband and wife residing in the District of Columbia, praying the privilege of adopting any minor child as his or her or their own child, and making such minor child an heir at law. If the judge shall find, upon the hearing of such petition, that the petitioner is a proper person to have custody of such child, and that the parent or parents or guardian of such child have given their permission for such adoption, he shall enter an order upon the records of the court legalizing such adoption and making such child an heir at law of such petitioner, the same as if such child was bom to such petitioner. If the child has no parent or guardian the judge shall appoint a guardian ad litem, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Read v. Legg“[i]t is settled law, we think, that an adopted child inherits only from his adopted parents, and does not inherit through the foster parents, from direct or collateral kin [citing cases from Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, and Annot., 30 A.L.R. 1407 ],”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Read v. Legg
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.