Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Camp (1974), State v. Freeman (1981)
57 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 Sutton v. Duke · Eubanks v. Eubanks · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Moss · Becker v. Becker · State v. Fowler
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Blood-grouping tests which show that a man cannot be the father of a child are perhaps the most dependable evidence we have known. See Note, 50 N.C.L.Rev. 163 (1971).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . The results of such blood grouping tests shall be admitted in evidence when offered by a duly licensed practicing physician or other qualified person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Camp · Bunting v. Beacham“Impotency and nonaccess are set out therein as examples of types of evidence that would `show that the husband could not have been the father.'”
2 later decisions 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.