657 F. Supp. 469 - Davis v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
August 1988
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Patterson v. New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Leland v. Oregon · Moran v. Ohio
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.
“[w]hile it may be a harsh sanction, it is not fundamentally unfair to impose on persons who fail to meet their human and social responsibility to support the children which they, of their own free will, bring into this society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Barber“[t]he state may require a defendant to prove an affirmative defense only if the affirmative defense 'does not serve to negative any facts of the crime which the State is to prove in order to convict.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Barber
How this case has been treated — in progress
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