PR v. Shannon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2013
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Voss v. Ralston · DS v. Department of Public Assistance & Social Services · Allen v. Allen · Adoption of Strauser Ex Rel. Lucas v. Strauser · Matter of Adoption of CCT
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]uress exists whenever a person is induced, by the unlawful act of another, to perform some act under circumstances which deprive him of the exercise of free will.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the natural parent has ex ecuted the consent after having been given an opportunity to deliberate and reflect on the decision and to seek independent advice and counseling and to ponder the alternatives available to [him], duress does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JK Ex Rel. DK v. MK“[dJjuress exists whenever one, by the unlawful act of another, is induced to perform some act under circumstances which deprive him of the exercise of free will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JK Ex Rel. DK v. MK
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.