MacE v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2022
11 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger · Blythe v. Ayres · 68 Cal. 2d 280 - People v. Sorensen · 245 Pa. Super. 307 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Andreas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adoption by acknowledgment. — The father of an illegitimate child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such, and such child is thereupon deemed for all purposes legitimate from the time of its birth. The foregoing provisions of this chapter do not apply to such an adoption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonwich v. Bonwich“in appropriate cases, a support obligation may be imposed on the basis of equitable estoppel or implied contract”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may choose to avoid doing so because they may find themselves permanently obligated.”
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.