Odell v. Lutz’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably 109 Cal. App. 4th 1466 - Fenn v. Sherriff (2003), 229 Cal. App. 3d 1510 - In Re the Marriage of Gayden (1991)
29 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 In re White · 72 Cal. App. 2d 129 - Robertson v. Robertson · Succession of Reiss
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[adoptive parents occupy the same position as the natural parents, with all the rights and duties of that relationship. [Citation.] One of the natural rights incident to parenthood, a right supported by law and sound public policy, is the right to the care and custody of a minor child. [Citation.]”
1 later decision 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.