Pendleton Ex Rel. Gadd v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2011
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 Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Gomez v. Perez · Labine v. Vincent · Fleece v. Shackelford
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.
“(1) The estate of a bastard shall descend and be distributed in the same manner as that of a person born in lawful wedlock, except that the inheritance shall go to the mother and her kindred and not to the father and his kindred. (2) A bastard shall inherit only from his mother and his mother’s kindred. (3) If a man who has had a child by a woman afterward marries her, the child or its descendents, if recognized by him before or after marriage, shall be deemed legitimate. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rudolph v. Rudolph“[b]ut in this state there is no such thing as a common-law marriage. What might be a common-law marriage somewhere else is no marriage at all here. As distinguished from being “void” or “illegal” it simply does not exist as a “marriage” of any kind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkhasov v. Petocz“simply does not exist as a `marriage' of any kind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sjls v. Tls
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.