Ford v. Loeffler’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
December 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eldridge v. Eldridge · 335 So. 2d 261 - Gammon v. Cobb · 151 So. 2d 325 - Clarke v. Blackburn · First State Bk. of Clermont v. Fitch · 148 So. 2d 735 - De Moya v. De Pena
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“putative father... had neither rights nor obligations”
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.