Blackshear v. Blackshear’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2004
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 Goldman v. Goldman · Fuchs v. Fuchs · In Matter of Badger · Doughty ex rel. Woods v. Engler · Bridges v. Bridges
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.
“[a]ppellant's position as to [the children's] parentage is without merit, this issue having been finally adjudicated below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Doe“[t]he matter of legitimacy was found to be res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Doe
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.