Bates v. Meade’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1996
18 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 Scanlon v. Walshe · Sams v. Sams' Administrator · Robinson v. Ruprecht · Miller v. Pennington · Hawbecker v. Hawbecker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * if the jgsue 0f a void marriage are legitimate under section 2098, why should not the issue before the marriage be made legitimate under section 1398, although the marriage was void? The same reasons that would save the child of a void marriage from illegitimacy should save the child born before marriage and thus put the child of a void marriage on the same footing with the child born out of marriage, but whose parents subsequently married.” (at p. 671)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. L. v. L.
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.