Buzzell v. Buzzell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1990
7 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 Laumeier v. Laumeier · Groulx v. Groulx · Shatford v. Shatford · 143 Cal. App. 2d 430 - Daniels v. Daniels · 118 Ind. App. 6 - Pilgrim v. Pilgrim
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it has been almost universally held that a determination with respect to paternity in such a case [divorce case], the child not being a party, is not binding upon the child in any later action brought by him or in his behalf involving his legitimacy or rights of inheritance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arsenault v. Carrier
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.