Thurnwald v. A.E.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2020
12 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 Lehr v. Robertson · Evans v. State · Wells v. Children's Aid Soc. of Utah · Ellis v. Social Services Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Fericks v. Lucy Ann Soffe Trust
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Aln unwed father's opportunity interest in developing a relationship with his newborn [is] a 'provisional right' that is itself protected by the due process clause of the Utah Constitution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“demonstrates a full commitment to the responsibilities of parenthood by 'com[ing] forward to participate in the rearing of his child'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) initiates proceedings in a district court ... to establish paternity ...; (b) files with the court that is presiding over the paternity proceeding a sworn affidavit: (i) stating that he is fully able and willing to have full custody of the child; (i) setting forth his plans for care of the child; and (iii) agreeing to a court order of child support and the payment of expenses incurred in connection with the mother's pregnancy and the child's birth; (c) ... files notice of the commencement of paternity proceedings ... with the state registrar of vital statistics within the Department of Health ...; and (d) offered to pay and paid a fair and reasonable amount of the expenses incurred in connection with the mother's pregnancy and the child's birth, ... unless: i) he did not have actual knowledge of the pregnancy; i) he was prevented from paying the expenses by the person or authorized agency having lawful custody of the child; or (Hii) the mother refuses to accept the unmarried biological father's offer to pay the expenses....”
2 later decisions 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.