84 Ark. App. 36 - Dunham v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 103 Ark. App. 207 - Hicks v. Cook (2008), 85 Ark. App. 481 - Sheppard v. Speir (2004)
26 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 Hamilton v. Barrett · Lloyd v. Butts · 65 Ark. App. 110 - Hollinger v. Hollinger · 63 Ark. App. 89 - Thompson v. Thompson · 17 Ark. App. 253 - Watts v. Watts
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts are very reluctant to take from the natural parents the custody of their child, and will not do so unless the parents have manifested such indifference to its welfare as indicates a lack of intention to discharge the duties imposed by the laws of nature and of the state to their offspring suitable to their station in life. When, however, the natural parents so far fail to discharge these obligations as to manifest an abandonment of the child and the renunciation of their duties to it, it then becomes the policy of the law to induce some good man or woman to take the waif into the bosom of their home[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The language is strong, requiring the manifestation of indifference to the welfare of the child or abandonment.”
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.