Clarkston v. Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 91 Cal. App. 3d 271 - Ruddock v. Ohls (1979), Bagley v. Bagley (2016)
44 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the obligor asserts as a defense that he is not the father of the child for whom support is sought and it appears to the court that the defense is not frivolous, and if both of the parties are present at the hearing or the proof required in the case indicates that the presence of either or both of the parties is not necessary, the court may adjudicate the paternity issue. Otherwise the court may adjourn the hearing until the paternity issue has been adjudicated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Since the issues involved in establishing paternity in a URESA proceeding precisely parallel those raised in a filiation proceeding, we believe that, absent some distinguishing policy, parellel procedures should be followed. “The URESA is a remedial statute designed to equalize the relative positions of resident and nonresident plaintiffs in support proceedings. While it reflects a legislative interest in minimizing the additional burdens and expenses which would otherwise be incurred by nonresident plaintiffs, this interest must be balanced against a legislative concern for the sensitivity of paternity adjudications and the corresponding legislative policy of providing procedural protections for such determinations . . Clarkston, 539 P.2d at 1009 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borchers v. McCarter“in the absence of an indication of legislative intent to the contrary, the procedures for establishing paternity in a support action under URESA [Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act] should parallel those mandated by the legislature for establishing paternity in other support proceedings.”
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.