Gibson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1991
14 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 Tarr v. Tarr · 118 Ind. App. 6 - Pilgrim v. Pilgrim · Schilcher v. Schilcher · Anderson v. Anderson · Ware v. Ware
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A presumption of law exists in favor of the legitimacy of a child born in wedlock; but the presumption may be rebutted by other testimony. Improbability of known access by the husband merely of itself is not sufficient to repel the presumption; but when the evidence forces the conclusion of nonaccess beyond all reasonable doubt, it is sufficient to repel the presumption. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassady v. Martin
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.