State v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Reed v. Reed · Lehr v. Robertson · Quilloin v. Walcott · Caban v. Mohammed
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not all natural fathers are similarly situated.... [S]tates are not foreclosed from recognizing differences in the extent of commitment made by fathers to the welfare of their children.”
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.