Orthwein v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Chase v. Chase (1897), 26 Ill. 2d 434 - Smith v. Bishop (1962)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Caujolle v. . Ferrie · Village of Brooklyn v. Smith · Blacklaws v. Milne · Morris v. Hogle · Borders v. Murphy
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption and charity of the law are in his [the child’s] favor, and those who wish to bastardize him must make out the fact by clear and irrefragable proof. The presumption of law is not lightly to be repelled. It is not to be lightly broken in upon, or shaken by a mere balance of probabilities. The evidence for repelling it must be strong, satisfactory and conclusive. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those only who are named as such in the record, and are properly served with process, or enter their appearance”
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.