Blasi v. Blasi’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The name of the child is not merely nominal. It is an essential ingredient in the relationship that continues between the child and the child’s father after the dissolution of marriage takes place.” Leibson, J., Concurring, 648 S.W.2d at 82 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Likins v. Logsdon

2. “[C]ourt has no power to do indirectly what it cannot do directly”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. AW v. Com.