Tedford v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Muse v. Muse (2008), Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Village of Ruidoso (1999)
42 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 108 Wash. 2d 299 - McDaniels v. Carlson · In Re Marriage of Ross · Spingola v. Spingola · Gilbraith v. Hixson · 131 Ill. 2d 491 - Simcox v. Simcox
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the stability of the present home environment, the existence or lack thereof of an ongoing family unit, the extent to which uncertainty of parentage already exists in the child's mind, and any other factors which may be relevant in assessing the potential benefit or detriment to the child.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is applicable in a paternity or retroactive child support action only when the child involved in such proceeding is a minor and has developed a close emotional attachment to the presumed parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not determine paternity solely on the basis of a biological relationship”
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.