Bartlett v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Calloway’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2013
13 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Perry v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Kessinger · Simmons v. Simmons · Tackett v. Tackett
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mother's testimony, if believed, was sufficient to establish "that the marital relationship between the husband and wife ceased ten (10) months prior to the birth of the child." KRS 406.011, supra. We need not decide whether the HLA testing standing alone would be sufficient to overcome the presumption of legitimacy and establish the appellant's paternity. Certainly, the HLA testing when corroborated by the evidence of access, the contribution toward support, and a similar genetic characteristic, is so overwhelming as to constitute proof beyond a reasonable doubt. By this opinion we acknowledge the importance of HLA blood testing in supplying evidence as necessary to overcome the presumption of legitimacy and the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Truth and justice are irrevocably bound. They are Siamese twins sharing a single heart beat. Neither can survive very long without the other. When the advances of science serve to assist in the discovery of the truth, the law must accommodate them. The law cannot pick and choose when truth will prevail.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] child born out of wedlock includes a child born to a married woman by a man other than her husband.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.N.R. v. O'Reilly · Drake v. Drake“[a] child born during lawful wedlock, or within ten (10) months thereafter, is presumed to be the child of the husband and wife.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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