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Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

58
cited by 58 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “. . . 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
  2. “. . . 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 passage
  3. “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.