Parham v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 69 district · 276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 638 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Caban v. Mohammed (1979), Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County (1981)
142 federal appellate · 69 district · 276 state decisions — followed in 32 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 · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dandridge v. Williams · Craig v. Boren · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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 638 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Constitution presumes that even improvident decisions will eventually be rectified by the democratic processes.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . once a State posits a judicially enforceable right on behalf of children to needed support from their natural fathers there is no constitutionally sufficient justification for denying such an essential right to a child simply because its natural father has not married its mother. For a state to do so is “illogical and unjust.” [Citation omitted.] 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. [Citations omitted.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It cannot seriously be argued that a statutory entitlement to sue for the wrongful death of another is itself a `fundamental' or constitutional right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Donna S. Marie, (A Fictitious Name of a Real Individual), Individually, on Her Own Behalf, and on Behalf of All Women Similarly Situated Donna Santa Marie, on Behalf of Her Own Child and All Others Similarly Situated Teresa H. Jimenez, on Behalf of Herself and on Behalf of Her Patients [Both Mothers · 224 N.J. Super. 686 - Sykes v. Propane Power Corp.
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.