Bednarik v. Bednarik’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably 38 Cal. 2d 273 - Gill v. Curtis Publishing Co. (1952), 10 N.J. Super. 152 - Cortese v. Cortese (1950)
27 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 Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Frye v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever it shall be relevant in a civil action to determine the parentage or the identity of any child or other person, the court, by order may direct that any party to the action and the person whose parentage or identity is involved submit to one or more blood grouping tests to be made by duly qualified physicians under such restrictions and directions as the court or judge shall deem proper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the law in its efforts to enforce justice by demonstrating a fact in issue, will allow evidence of those scientific processes, which are the work of educated and skillful men in their various departments and apply them to the demonstration of a fact, leaving the weight and effect to be given to the effort and its results entirely to the consideration of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““But upon what social theory can the blood grouping test of a defendant and her child in a divorce suit ordered for the purpose of attempting to prove her guilty of adultery, be justified? The public policy does not favor divorce. It regards the family as the social unit, and does not encourage the annulment or dissolution of that relationship. It recognizes, with the strongest presumption, the legitimacy of every child born in wedlock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rasco v. Rasco
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.