Wells v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Minor v. Lillard (1956), Hofstad v. Christie (2010)
41 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 Hyde v. Honiter · Kopp v. Traders Gate City National Bank · Higgins v. Breen · Wood v. Estate of Lewis · 226 Mo. App. 494 - Brunnert v. Boeckmann
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Kinship in any degree ... are [sic] not necessarily essential to the establishment of a family relation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farapo v. Schuster
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.