Minor v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1957
9 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 Succession of Vance · Waugh v. Riley · Succession of Gravier · 45 La. Ann. 935 - Hughes v. Murdock · Badillo v. Tio
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Illegitimate children who have been acknowledged by their father are called natural children; those who have not been acknowledged by their father, or whose father and mother were incapable of contracting marriage at the time of conception, or whose father is unknown, are contradistinguished by the appellation of bastards.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murdock v. Potter““The acknowledgment of an illegitimate child shall be made by a declaration executed before a notary public; in presence of two witnesses, by the father .and mother, or either of them, whenever it shall not have been made in the registering of the birth or baptism of such child.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murdock v. Potter
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.