MacMath v. Maine Adoption Placement Services

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an adoption agency was not under a duty to advise adoptive parents to postpone an adoption until the adoptive child’s health problems were diagnosed, nor to investigate the adoptive parents’ legal rights to government subsidies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gibbs v. Ernst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-13· cited 408×
• Mallette v. Children's Friend and Service
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-06-30· cited 49×
• Brae Asset Fund, L.P. v. Adam
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1995-07-19· cited 19×
• Dresser v. Cradle of Hope Adoption Center, Inc.
  E.D. Michigan· 2005-02-24· cited 5×
• Harshaw v. Bethany Christian Services
  W.D. Michigan· 2010-05-28· cited 1×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burr v. Board of County Commissioners
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-04-11· cited 501×
• Diversified Foods, Inc. v. First National Bank of Boston
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-04-22· cited 102×
• M.H. v. Caritas Family Services
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-08-21· cited 87×
• Michael J. v. Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-05-31· cited 85×
• FOSTER BY FOSTER v. Bass
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 54×
• Guiggey v. Bombardier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-11-02· cited 51×
• Estate of Althenn v. Althenn
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-06-02· cited 44×
• Stevens v. Bouchard
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1987-10-28· cited 44×
• Roe v. CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-02-14· cited 38×
• H.E.P. Development Group, Inc. v. Nelson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-04-08· cited 34×
• Eaton v. Sontag
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-06-01· cited 23×
• Petrowsky v. Family Service of Decatur, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-30· cited 16×