Serway v. Galentine’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 1 - Sarracino v. Superior Court (1974), Dacanay v. Mendoza (1978)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 Berry v. Chaplin · Gavin v. Protestant Episcopal Bishop · McNamara v. McNamara · 137 Am. St. Rep. 89 - Adams v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas · Gird v. Bennett
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The father of an illegitimate child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such; and such child is thereupon deemed for all purposes legitimate from the time of its birth."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court is, in effect, the guardian of the minor and the guardian ad litem is but an officer and representative of the court. In such a case it will be presumed that the court will look to the best interests of the child and will render a decree that will establish and preserve her rights. (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beermann v. Beermann
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.