Hurst v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1981
3 federal appellate · 6 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 In re the Estate of Gorkow · State v. Tieman · Rohrer v. Muller
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will thus be seen, from a reading of the section as a whole, that the acknowledgment in writing of an illegitimate child by the father confers upon the child a restricted right to inherit from the father, but does not of itself legitimatize the child. Legitimacy only follows where the parents have intermarried and the father, after marriage, shall have acknowledged the child in the manner provided.””
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.