Carter v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably In Re Housing Authority of City of Salisbury (1952), Vogel v. Reed Supply Company (1970)
26 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 Roach v. . Pritchett · State v. . Chambers · Hughes v. . Oliver · Hughes v. Oliver · Bowman v. Howard
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of the word “reputed” rather than “putative” in G.S. 49-12 “was intended merely to dispense with absolute proof of paternity, so that, if the child is ‘regarded,’ ‘deemed,’ ‘considered,’ or ‘held in thought’ by the parents themselves, as their child, either before or after marriage, it is legitimate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“From and after the marriage of the mother and the reputed father of an illegitimate child, such child shall be deemed and held to be legitimate just as if it had been born in lawful wedlock. In a divorce action the father of a child of the marriage may be required to support such child.”
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.