Reilly v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1981
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 Tobin v. Haack · State v. Nestaval · State v. Lindskog · Bush v. City of Rochester · In Re Estate of Snethun
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.
“Our statute relating to illegitimacy proceedings against the father is `one in law for a particular purpose, viz., for the indemnity of society against the expense of the support of the child.' State v. Nestaval, 72 Minn. 415, 416 , 75 N.W. 725 . Before such child can inherit it must be shown that the father `in writing, before a competent attesting witness, shall have declared himself to be his father.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * Every human instinct is moved toward extending a helping hand to such child, already laboring under a handicap impossible of removal. That is why the old and harsh rules of the common law have been modified and in many instances removed by statutory enactments.””
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.