140 Ind. App. 289 - Whitman v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Buchanan v. Buchanan (1971), 141 Ind. App. 101 - Hooley v. Hooley (1967)
26 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 119 Ind. App. 232 - Pursley v. Hisch · 82 Ind. App. 356 - Phillips v. State Ex Rel. Hathcock · 134 Ind. App. 172 - Duke v. Duke
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he presumption could be overcome by proof that the husband was impotent; or that he was entirely absent so as to have had no access to the mother; or was entirely absent at the time the child in the course of nature must have been begotten; or was present only under such circumstances as to afford clear and satisfactory proof that there was no sexual intercourse.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * considering the evidence most favorable to appellee; the strong presumption of the legitimacy of a chlid born in wedlock; the fact that appellant admittedly was having normal marital sexual relations with the appellee at the time of conception; and the failure of proof to show that anyone else had such access; and the lack of the evidence to directly, clearly, and convincingly establish the sterility of appellant at the time of conception, we conclude that the decision of the trial court is sustained by sufficient evidence and is not contrary to law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. L. v. M.
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.