Gossett v. Ullendorff’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger (1961), Eldridge v. Eldridge (1944)
53 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 Dudley v. White · Cobb v. Trammell · Benedict v. Wilmarth · Harrell v. Harrell · Saxon v. Rawls
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion to strike from an answer any part of it which may be deemed to be redundant, impertinent or scandalous is controlled by the rule which requires the denial of the motion unless the matter sought to be stricken is wholly irrelevant, can have no bearing upon the equities and no influence upon the decision either as to the relief to be granted or the allowance of costs. See Sec. 23, Chap. 14658, Acts 1931, known as the Chancery Act.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“By reason of the interest which the state has in the marital status of persons and the beneficial interests flowing to the state as an organized society from well-ordered and satisfactory home conditions, the circumstances seem to us to be more analogous to that condition in which through public policy a wife is not permitted to deny the parentage of children born during wedlock. She cannot repudiate their legitimacy. That right belongs only to the father, because maternity is never uncertain. She may only contest the identity of the child. See 7 C.J. 953.”
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.