Kuser v. Orkis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Maloney v. Pac (1981), Johnson v. Flammia (1975)
41 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 Johnson v. United States · Indian Towing Co. v. United States · Lehon v. City of Atlanta · Brecciaroli v. Commissioner of Environmental Protection · Waldron v. Raccio
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the long established policy of this state to require a father to support his illegitimate child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Historically, the action was criminal in form but civil in nature. It is fundamental, however, that the rules governing civil actions apply. As this court observed in Pelak v. Karpa, ( 146 Conn. 370 , 372 , 151 A.2d 333 ):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen ... an issue of fact is joined, the case may, within ten days after such issue of fact is joined, be entered in the docket as a jury case upon the request of either party to the clerk.”
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.