Rey v. Rey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2013
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 Ramsey v. Dunlop · McCauley v. Consolidated Underwriters · Shelton v. Belknap · Curtin v. State · Moore v. Jordan
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.
“committed fundamental error in adjudicating the rights of the Petitioner and particularly the rights of the minor child based on an issue unduly limiting the relationship of the parties to matters antecedent to the alleged ceremonial marriage [between the natural father and a woman other than the child's mother] and not encompassing the relation of the parties subsequent thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. RAM v. State
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.