Rasco v. Rasco’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1993
17 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 Bernheimer Ex Rel. Bernheimer v. First National Bank · In Re Adoption of Duren v. Hicks · Nelson v. Jones · State Ex Rel. Alton Railroad Co. v. Shain · Jackson v. Phalen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such presumption in favor of the legitimacy of children born in wedlock is the strongest known to the law, and the courts in their righteous zeal to protect the innocent offspring will not permit this presumption to be overthrown unless there is no judicial escape from such a malign conclusion. “To overthrow this presumption the evidence must show conclusively that the husband, by reason of absence or otherwise, could not have had sexual intercourse with the wife at the beginning of any reasonable period of gestation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vlp v. Jss · V. L. P. v. J. S. S.“must be not only clear and convincing ... but it must be such that no conclusion other than that of illegitimacy can be reached,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bsh v. Jjh
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.