Willmon v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2016
10 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 Thomas v. Pacheco · State v. Bowman · Spratlin v. Evans · Dunn v. Davis · Madden v. Madden
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is more at issue than a rule of evidence. Marriage is still considered an honorable institution; children born during marriage should be deemed legitimate, and legal efforts to declare such children illegitimate are not and should not be made easy. Belief in that principle is so great that we have created a legal presumption to protect it. This presumption, that a child born during marriage is the legitimate child of the parties to that marriage, is one of the strongest presumptions recognized by the law. See Jacobs v. Jacobs, 146 Ark. 45 , 225 S.W. 22 (1920).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Freeman“any man alleging to be the father of an illegitimate child may petition... for a determination of the paternity of the illegitimate child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rn v. Jm“[A]n illegitimate child is a child who is born at the time that his parents, though alive, are not married to each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rn v. Jm
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.