Gomez v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 40 district · 597 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 800 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Linda R. S. v. Richard D. (1973)
32 federal appellate · 40 district · 597 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Carrington v. Rash · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Mishkin v. State of New York
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 800 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize the lurking problems with respect to proof of paternity. Those problems are not to be lightly brushed aside, but neither can they be made into an impenetrable barrier that works to shield otherwise invidious discrimination.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the laws of Texas may constitutionally grant legitimate children a judicially enforceable right to support from their natural fathers and at the same time deny that right to illegitimate children.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no legal obligation to support the child and the Plaintiff take nothing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rn v. Jm
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.