Baston v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1996
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Ferguson v. Skrupa · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Morey v. Doud · James v. Hutton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 2151.42, Revised Code, which makes it a criminal offense for the father, of an illegitimate child to fail to sup-, port such child, does not give rise to a civil action for support on behalf of such child. (Sec. 2151.42, Revised Code, construed.)” (Syllabus.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intimate, familial relationship which exists between a mother and her child, whether the child is legitimate or illegitimate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. G v. P.
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.