Humphrey v. Pannell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2018
11 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Stanley v. Illinois · Lehr v. Robertson · Quilloin v. Walcott · Michael v. Gerald D
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language of Section 93-17-13(2). Id. at 399-400 . It stated that in some states that language allows post-adoption visitation, which differs from a quasi-adoption. Id. at 400 . It concluded that Section 93-17-13(2) was not intended by the Legislature to grant a natural parent the right to weaken the legal bonds of the adoptive parent-child relationship by reserving the right to, in effect, sit and wait for the circumstances of the adoptive family to materially change and then divest the adoptive family of custody. Id. In other words, the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. F.D.P. v. J.S.B. · In re D.D.H.“[N]ot all adoptions are 'traditional.' The chancellor is in the best position to assess this question with respect to each adoption on a case by case basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“unless otherwise specifically provided language”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. F.D.P. v. J.S.B. · In re D.D.H.
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.