Anderson v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2022
20 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Stanley v. Illinois · Boddie v. Connecticut · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Little v. Streater
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The denial of blood grouping tests to an indigent paternity defendant, who is unable to prepay for such tests, and who faces the state as an adversary when the complainant-mother and her child are recipients of public assistance, violates the due process guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The various factors considered by the Supreme Court in Little were treated cumulatively, but the court placed special emphasis on these three: (1) the importance of the parent-child relationship, (2) the unquestioned exculpatory value of blood grouping tests, and (3) the pervasiveness of the state’s involvement in the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. Wood
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.