Pfeifer v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.2d 464 · 1930
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 district · 8 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 Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Bucher v. Cheshire Railroad · Claiborne Co v. Brooks · Detroit v. Osborne · Blythe v. Ayres
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in all respects upon the same footing as if begotten and born in wedloc.k....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`Illegitimate children inherit from the mother, and the mother from the children. "`They shall also inherit from the father whenever they have been recognized by him as his children; but such recognition must have been general and notorious, or else in writing.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The inquiry then is, whether on the facts stated in the bill this statute legitimated appellant, so as to give her the status of a lawful child, and thus make her an heir to decedent as such [in Oklahoma]; or whether the statute only made her an heir to decedent as an illegitimate, effectual only as to property in Kansas. "We are unable to say that the statute relied on discloses a legislative intention to change the status of a child from illegitimate to legitimate. Its only purpose, so far as we are able to discover from its terms, is to give to an illegitimate child as such the right to inherit from the father on the conditions named... ." ( 41 F.2d at 467 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.