State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2015
19 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Francis v. Franklin · Tot v. United States · 395 So. 2d 319 - State v. McCoy · Wayne 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the use of the conclusive presumption that the husband of the mother is the father of the child, La.C.C. art. 184, to prove the essential element of “parenthood” in a prosecution under La.R.S. 14:74 “clearly violates the federal and state constitutional guarantees of due process.” The court concluded that “the term ‘parent’ in La.R.S. 14:74(2) encompasses only the persons who begot or brought forth the child and cannot constitutionally be expanded by interpretation to include a person who is merely presumed in the civil law to be the biological parent.” Supra at 1087”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly violates the federal and state constitutional guarantees of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The husband of the mother is presumed to be the father of all children born or conceived during the marriage.”
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.