Minor v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1966
2 federal appellate · 13 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 · Ellis v. Prevost · Lange v. Richoux · 1 La. Ann. 435 - Egerton v. Third Municipality of New Orleans · 33 La. Ann. 1099 - Succession of Hébert
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Bastard, adulterous or incestuous children shall not enjoy the right of inheriting the estates of their natural father or mother, in any of the eases above mentioned, the law allowing them nothing- more than a mere alimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Allen““No other proof of acknowledgment shall be admitted in favor of children of color.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Allen
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.