Russo v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2022
11 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 Murphy v. Murphy · Frye v. Frye · McGlone v. McGlone · Litz v. Bennum · Hermanson v. Hermanson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] man is- [rebuttably] presumed to be the natural father of a child if' he and the child's natural mother were married or attempted to get married; "[h]e and the child's natural mother were cohabiting for at least 6 months before th.e period of conception and continued to cohabit through the period of Conception”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] man is- [rebuttably] presumed to be the natural father of a child if' he and the child's natural mother were married or attempted to get married;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“!wl.hile the child is under the age of majority, he receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his natural child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.