119 Ind. App. 232 - Pursley v. Hisch’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably In the Matter of Legitimation of Locklear by Jones (1985), A.- B. v. C.- D. (1971)
53 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 In Re the Estate of Findlay · 82 Ind. App. 356 - Phillips v. State Ex Rel. Hathcock · Hamilton v. State · State v. Coliton · Zoller v. State
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.
“Indiana common law is clear that the term wedlock refers to the status of the biological parents of the child in relation to each other. A child born to a married woman, but fathered by a man other than her husband, is a”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“We will not assume the signature was affixed by an interloper. Indulging the usual presumption of regularity, this Court will presume the signature was attached by the judge with the intention of thus signing the bill, unless the record affirmatively shows the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In a proceeding of this kind we think the presumption or inference, although it is one of the strongest known to the law, is susceptible of being rebutted. See Roth v. Jacobs (1871), 21 Ohio St. Rep. 646 .” (Emphasis added.) (119 Ind. App. at 237).”
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.