Sernaker v. Ehrlich’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Heim (1976), 25 Ariz. App. 10 - Anonymous v. Anonymous (1975)
34 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 Beltran v. Heim · Carson v. Lowe · Casper v. Huber · Jacono Adoption Case · 265 Cal. App. 2d 482 - Taubman v. Neal
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`settled purpose ... to forego all parental custody and relinquish all claims to the child,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the withholding of parental presence, love, care, filial affection and support and maintenance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“leave the child in the care and custody of another without provision for his support.”
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.