Foster v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003
3 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 210 So. 2d 672 - Stone v. Stone · Herring v. Goodson · Krohn v. Migues · 340 So. 2d 722 - Dixon v. Curtis · Bryant v. Thrower
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne of the strongest presumptions known to the law is the presumption that a child born in wedlock is legitimate. Such is based on the strongest of public policies favoring marriage; thus, all reasonable presumptions will be given to the best interest of the child born during wedlock.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any copy of the records of birth, sickness or death, when properly certified to by the state registrar of vital statistics, to be a true copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein stated.”
1 later decision 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.