107 W. Va. 563 - State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly (1951), 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb (1953)
30 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 64 W. Va. 659 - State v. Snyder · Mink v. State · Hays v. Harris · State ex rel. Wright v. Bennett
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the time of the birth, the father and mother are the most proper witnesses to prove it. But it is a rule, founded in decency, morality, and policy, that they shall not be permitted to say after marriage, that they have had no connection, and therefore that the offspring is spurious; more especially, the mother, who is the offending party.”
2 later decisions 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.