15 Wash. App. 804 - State v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2005
6 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 Gomez v. Perez · 68 Wash. 2d 748 - State v. Russell · 73 Wash. 2d 716 - Armijo v. Wesselius · 230 Cal. App. 2d 113 - Estate of Woodward · 11 Wash. App. 362 - Kaur v. Chawla
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`we are not disposed to treat the illegitimate child so differently from the legitimate child caught in the backwash of his parents' separation. In all sense of justice and equity, any such distinction, at least as to the right of parental support, belongs to a bygone day'”
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.