Girard v. Wagenmaker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the Legislature did not express an intention to grant a putative father standing to establish the paternity of a child born while the mother was legally married to another man without a prior determination that the mother's husband is not the father”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re KH · 224 Mich. App. 682 - In Re Estate of Quintero

2. “a child begotten and born to a woman who was not married from the conception to the date of birth of the child, or a child that the court has determined to be a child born or conceived during a marriage but not the issue of that marriage.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re KH · 224 Mich. App. 682 - In Re Estate of Quintero

3. “We do not denigrate the dissent's genuine and thoughtful concerns over the moral dilemma between the paternal needs of the biological father and those of the presumptively legitimate child. We only find that the Legislature has made its choice and the answer to the dissent's concerns will have to come from that body.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 224 Mich. App. 682 - In Re Estate of Quintero