Denbow v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trimble v. Gordon · Lalli v. Lalli · Kowalski v. Wojtkowski · Ventresco v. Bushey · Thut v. Grant
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Maine Legislature intended to limit paternity actions to instances to where children were born to an unmarried woman,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. J.N.R. v. O'Reilly
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.