Swartzwelder v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 2009
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 711 of the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code affords a person alternative procedures to seek the alteration, amendment or modification of a birth certificate in proceedings before the orphans' court division of the appropriate court of common pleas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re ILP
How this case has been treated — in progress
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