Beckwith v. Beckwith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2010
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Breithaupt v. Abram · Union Pac Ry Co v. Botsford
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]hose courts that have considered... constitutional challenges to the ordering of blood grouping tests in matters involving paternity have uniformly rejected them,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sa v. Ma
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.