Thom v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1999
2 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that illegitimate, as well as legitimate, children may establish paternity for all purposes, including inheritance, under any 'other provision of law' ...”
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.