Pearson v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hutchison v. Hutchison · Washington County Water Conservancy District v. Morgan · In Re Adoption of B.B.D. · Lopes v. Lopes · State in Interest of JWF
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A father who fails to comply with the requirements of section 78-30-4.14(2) has no standing to object to [an] adoption and permanently loses his parental rights to the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining who can challenge the presumption of legitimacy, a paramount consideration should be preserving the stability of the marriage and protecting children from disruptive and unnecessary attacks upon their paternity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marchand v. Marchand“[In the hopefully rare instance where a child born into a marriage is fathered by another man, the husband is nevertheless deemed the father of the child, with all concomitant rights and responsibilities ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marchand v. Marchand
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.