Spaeth v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2018
10 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 108 Wash. 2d 299 - McDaniels v. Carlson · In Re Marriage of Ross · Niccum v. Hydra Tool Corp. · C.C. v. A.B. · Weber Ex Rel. Weber v. Anderson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither Minnesota’s parentage act nor the [Uniform Parentage Act] suggests that a determination of paternity should include analysis of whether a child’s best interests would be served by the adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his biological child”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Cataldo“denie[d] the existence of [A.S.'s] father and child relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.