Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Bankston v. Prime West Corp. (1981), Shatford v. Shatford (1949)
28 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 Patterson v. Gaines · Kennedy v. State · Marvin v. Marvin · Honnett v. Honnett · Rowland v. Taylor
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decided weight of authority is that every child born during wedlock is rightly presumed to be the offspring of the husband. The presumption must be adhered to for the protection of the rights of those who are attempted to be bastardized without any fault on their part, to preserve the peace of families and to promote the interest of society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Earp v. Earp
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.