Bertrand v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The purpose of this disqualifying provision is to prevent a dissolute mother from choosing as the father of her illegitimate child any one of several men with whom she had been intimate at the time of conception.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Watson

2. ““[that] a single act of intercourse more than one year after the birth of the illegitimate child . . . was not relevant to ‘the premise that the mother was dissolute at the time of conception.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. Ernst