Rapp v. Kizer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2026
22 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 Kirby v. Kirby · Lipsey v. Battle · 38 Wash. 2d 691 - Snowden v. Kittitas County School District No. 401 · Higgs v. Higgs
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The common law affords no remedy to compel a putative father to contribute to the support of his illegitimate offspring. Statutes now exist in most jurisdictions, however, providing for judicial proceedings, usually called filiation or bastardy proceedings, to establish the paternity of a bastard child and to compel the father to contribute to its support.” 7 American Jurisprudence 679. . . .Perhaps the reason for placing jurisdiction in bastardy matters in the county court no longer exists, but nevertheless, the Constitution has not been changed, and the county court still has exclusive, original jurisdiction in such matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stain v. Stain · Henry v. Johnson“Webster’s New International Dictionary, 2nd Edition, defines bastardy as: “1. State or quality of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child.” The term “relating to” has generally been defined as meaning “in respect to; in reference to; in regard to,” . . . Can it be said that the action instituted in the chancery court by the putative father is not a “matter relating to. . . bastardy?” To ask the question is but to answer the question for the issues presented for determination obviously flow from and are involved only with the procreation of a bastard or illegitimate child. . . . Our Constitution . . . does not limit the original jurisdiction of the county court to “bastardy proceedings” but specifically gives the county court “exclusive original jurisdiction in all matters relating to . . . bastardy . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stain v. Stain“County courts — Jurisdiction — Single Judge holding court. — The county courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in all matters relating to . . . bastardy,. . . (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stain v. Stain
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.