Foster v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1979
17 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 Sutton v. Sutton · Pratt v. Atwood · Moore v. Moore · In re the Estate of Magee · Edwards v. Gaulding
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And, if it be inquired why in express terms they failed to make the bastard and his descendants the heirs of his mother, the obvious answer is that by their very terms they make the bastard as much the child and heir of his mother as if he ;were born in lawful wedlock; that is, fully legitimates him for the purpose of heirship and succession, and as though he never were a bastard.””
2 later decisions 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.