Witt v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1979
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pokraka v. Lummus Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] child born out of wedlock will be deemed to be legitimate if either the paternity of such child has been established by law during the father's lifetime or if the putative father marries the mother of the child and acknowledges the child to be his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Two statutory means by which this petitioner may be entitled to be treated as a legitimate child of the father for purposes of inheritance only, are contained in the Indiana Probate Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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