Jordan v. Mace’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably State v. Dantonio (1955), Grubbs v. Hannigan (1993)
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Jordan v. Davis · Moores v. Inhabitants of Springfield
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the very nature of such a case evidence excluding the possibility of opportunity for another to be the father is limited to the statement of the complainant. No corroboration of total lack of opportunity could well be expected on the part of the respondent. Chance alone would produce evidence tending to show acts of intercourse by another with the complainant within the limited period.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'We are not disposed to close our minds to conclusions which science tells us are established. Nor do we propose to lay down as a rule of law that the triers of fact may reject what science says is true; for to do so would be to invite at some future time a conflict between scientific truth and stare decisis and in that contest the result could never be in doubt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Exclusion of paternity by blood grouping tests under biological law is scientific proof that a respondent is not the father.””
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.