McBride v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably Southern Ry. Co. v. Beaty (1925), Tucker v. Houston (1927)
30 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 Burney v. Torrey · Taylor v. Kelly · Schieffelin v. Schieffelin · Stubbs v. Houston · Eastis v. Montgomery
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of the word `reputed' was intended merely to dispense with absolute proof of paternity, so that, if the child is `regarded,' `deemed,' `considered,' or `held in thought' by the parents themselves as their child, either before or after marriage, it is legitimate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowman v. . Howard
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.