Feazel v. Feazel’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Murphy v. Houma Well Service (1969), Smith v. Cole (1989)
7 federal appellate · 60 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 Succession of Barth · Succession of Saloy · Dejol v. Johnson · Mack v. Handy · Harman v. M'Leland
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law considers the husband of the mother as the father of all children conceived during the marriage.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Henderson · Smith v. Cole“"The presumption of paternity as an incident to the marriage is also at an end, when the remoteness of the husband from the wife has been such that cohabitation has been physically impossible."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The husband cannot by alleging his natural impotence, disown the child; he cannot disown it even for cause of adultery, unless its birth has been concealed from him, in which case he will be permitted to prove that he is not its father."”
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.