Ex Parte Wolfenden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Abandonment by natural parents may be found only when, being given benefit of every controverted fact, such inference follows from the evidence as a matter of law.” (citations omitted)
• no Tenn. R. App. P. 11 application filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Riley
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-12-05· cited 33×
• Pierce v. Bechtold
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-04-25· cited 27×
• Fancher v. Mann
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1968-03-04· cited 20×
• Zartman v. Self
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-04-15· cited 8×
• Derryberry v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-12-04· cited 6×
• West Tennessee Agape, Inc. v. Lipe
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1974-06-17· cited 4×
• Thompson v. Montieth
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-10-14· cited 1×
• James O'Neal Vineyard, et ux. v. Walker Betty, et ux.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-11-13
• Scarlett/Patrick Spencer v. James Aydlotte
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-08-29
• Bethany Christian Services v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-05-19

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Russell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1951-04-03· cited 24×
• Young v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-06-23· cited 20×
• Caruso v. Caruso
  New York Supreme Court· 1940-11-15· cited 18×
• In re the Adoption of Norris
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1935-11-07· cited 17×
• In re the Adoption of Paden
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1943-06-29· cited 16×
• People ex rel. Cocuzza v. Cobb
  New York Supreme Court· 1949-12-05· cited 5×