154 Ind. App. 203 - Roe v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably U. S. Aircraft Financing, Inc. v. Jankovich (1980), 177 Ind. App. 654 - Fox v. Galvin (1978)
49 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 Watts v. Sweeney · 146 Ind. App. 404 - Beaman v. Hedrick · Eel River Railroad v. State ex rel. Kistler · 152 Ind. App. 675 - Hardiman v. Hardiman · Boland v. Claudel
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While in a paternity action the burden is on the mother to prove that the defendant is the father of the child, the testimony of the mother regarding an act of sexual intercourse with the defendant coupled with the probability of pregnancy is sufficient to support a determination that the defendant is the father of the child."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... On the basis of this evidence and the statutory discretion vested in the trial court by [IC 1971, XX-X-X-XX], we are unable to say that the trial court abused its discretion in making awards for support and medical expenses." (Our insert)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provide for the payment by the father of said child of the necessary expenses incurred by, or on behalf of, the mother, in the course of the ... prosecution of an action to establish paternity of said child... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Os v. Jm
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.