Thomas v. Solis’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Bridges v. Nicely (1985), Taxiera v. Malkus (1990)
8 district · 34 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 Matthews v. Kernewood, Inc. · Patuxent Oil Co. v. County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County · Dawson v. Eversberg · Parker v. Tilghman v. Morgan, Inc. · Kauten v. Kauten
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Child of his mother. — A child born to parents who have not participated in a marriage ceremony with each other shall be considered to be the child of his mother. (b) Child of his father. — A child born to parents who have not participated in a marriage ceremony with each other shall be considered to be the child of his father only if the father (1) Has been judicially determined to be the father in an action brought under the statutes relating to paternity proceedings; or (2) Has acknowledged himself, in writing, to be the father; or (3) Has openly and notoriously recognized the child to be his child; or (4) Has subsequently married the mother and has acknowledged himself, orally or in writing, to be the father, (emphasis added).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““indicated that a ‘liberal interpretation’ of our legitimation statute was essential; that it was ‘not limited in its scope and application to matters of inheritance only’ but was legally sufficient ‘to establish other rights, ... arising from the relationship existing between parent and legitimate issue,’ ... and that the status sought by the father was afforded to him by compliance with the legitimation statute.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Child of his father — A child born to parents who have not participated in a marriage ceremony with each other shall be considered to be the child of his father only if the father .... (3) Has openly and notoriously recognized the child to be his child; ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.