State v. Sax’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Hall v. Lalli (1999), Bill by and Through Bill v. Gossett (1982)
37 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 Singer v. Allied Factors, Inc. · Bulau v. Bulau · State Ex Rel. Bergin v. Washburn · State v. Nestaval · Kirchoff v. Board of County Commissioners
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The commissioner of public welfare shall accept from the alleged, acknowledged, or adjudicated father of the child such sum as shall be approved by the court having jurisdiction of proceedings to establish the paternity of the child in full settlement of all obligations for the care, maintenance, and education of such child and hold or dispose of the same as ordered by the court. Such settlement shall discharge the alleged, acknowledged, or adjudicated father of all further liability, civil and criminal, on account of such child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benson v. Hackbarth
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.