Caujolle v. . Ferrie’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably In Re the Estate of Findlay (1930), 34 Ill. 2d 495 - Droste v. Kerner (1966)
1 federal appellate · 79 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ I have been unable to find any authority in this state, on a question of legitimacy, which requires the heir and acknowledged and conceded child to prove an act of marriage as a requisite to maintain his legitimacy. The presumption and the charity of the law are in his favor; and those who wish to bastardize him must make out the fact by clear and irrefragable proof.””
1 later decision 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.