Bell v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burns v. Estate of Cole
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] court of competent jurisdiction has established the paternity of the child....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Noble v. Neal
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.