Hernandez v. Anaya’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1986
18 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 Wagner v. Lucas · Deckert v. Burns · Latimer v. Haste · People's Bonded Trustee v. Wight, Judge · Schuerf v. Fowler
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proceedings to enforce the obligation of the father shall not be brought after the lapse of more than two [2] years from the birth of the child unless paternity has been judicially established or has been acknowledged by the father in writing or by the furnishing of support, except that there shall be no time limitation on proceedings initiated by the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stringer v. Dudoich
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.