Leonard v. Crocker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2000
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 85 So. 2d 726 - Seymour v. Seymour · Euart v. Yoakley · Lopez v. Rodriguez
Most-quoted passages
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“terminates all legal relationships between the adopted person and his relatives ... so that the adopted person is a stranger to his or her former relatives for all purposes, including inheritance and the interpretation or construction of documents, statutes, and instruments ... that do not expressly include the adopted person by name or by some designation not based on a parent and child or blood relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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