478 So. 2d 1113 - Locklear v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2009
12 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 387 So. 2d 465 - Carlyon v. Weeks · 444 So. 2d 43 - Amos v. Dept. of Health and Rehab. Services · 439 So. 2d 955 - Holliman v. Green
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as if it were no more than a simple claim between private parties to enforce a monetary obligation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“should not be entered solely upon the basis of unadmitted and unproven allegations of paternity,”
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.