62 Wis. 2d 295 - Slawek v. Stroh’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably 72 Wis. 2d 282 - Lister v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (1976), 102 Wis. 2d 539 - Eberhardy v. Circuit Court for Wood County (1981)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · 26 Wis. 2d 617 - Wilcox v. Wilcox · 21 Wis. 2d 349 - Alsteen v. Gehl · Rothstein v. Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin & Upper Michigan · 41 Ill. App. 2d 240 - Zepeda v. Zepeda
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e conclude that the plaintiff-appellant, as a putative father of an illegitimate child, does have the constitutional right to establish, if he can, his natural parentage, to assert parental rights, and a legal forum with due process procedures to establish these rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[It] would have vast social ramifications and the creation of such a cause of action is the type of public policy decision that should be made by the people of this state or their elected legislative representatives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court wrote that in Wisconsin, The only specific statutory procedure for establishing the parentage of illegitimate children and making provision for their care, custody and maintenance appears in [a chapter dealing] with the broad problem of the support of dependents. Id. at 304 , 215 N.W.2d at 15 . . . . Two recent cases, among others, Stanley v. Illinois, (1972) 405 U.S. 645 , 92 S.Ct. 1208 , 31 L.Ed.2d 551 and State ex rel. Lewis v. Lutheran Social Services, (1973) 59 Wis.2d 1 , 207 N.W.2d 826 , in effect, recognized that fathers, including putative fathers, do have the right to establish they are a natural parent and, as such, have some parental right and duties.”
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.