Callison v. Callison’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2020
17 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Frye v. United States · Cannon v. United States
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.
“An action to determine paternity and to enforce this obligation may be brought within three (3) years after the birth of the child or within three (3) years from the time that the person charged with being the child’s father last contributed to his support or education.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The imposition of a three-year period within which a paternity suit must be brought restricts the right of some illegitimate children to paternal support in a way that the identical right of legitimate children is not restricted. 687 P.2d at 109 .”
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.