Franklin v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Lykiardopoulo v. New Orleans & C. R., Light & Power (1910), Estate of Lund (1945)
58 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 Wenning v. Teeple · Cooper v. State · Boulden v. McIntire · Fleming v. . the People · Teter v. Teter
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption in favor of marriage and the legitimacy of children is one of the strongest known to the law, and in favor of a child asserting its legitimacy this presumption applies with peculiar force.” Teter v. Teter, 101 Ind. 129 , 51 Am. Rep. 742 . Franklin v. Lee, 30 Ind. App. 31 , 62 N. E. 78 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Curtis
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.