State v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Town of Brookfield v. Candlewood Shores Estates, Inc. (1986), Doe v. Doe (1972)
2 district · 44 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 London & Lancashire Indemnity Co. of America v. Duryea · Pelak v. Karpa · Dickinson · Moore v. Saxton · Heath v. White
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[concluded] that the defendant's unsworn but written acknowledgment of paternity, coupled . . . with his contract to support the child whose paternity he has admitted, [was] sufficient to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“can only be taken in its usual and common meaning which is '(t)o own, avow, or admit; to confess; to recognize one's acts, and assume the responsibility therefor'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has acknowledged in writing his paternity of”
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.