76 Wash. 2d 586 - Stone v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1990
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Pierson v. Pierson · State Ex Rel. Bentley v. Frenger · 39 Wash. 2d 697 - Carfa v. Albright · 29 Wash. 2d 759 - In Re the Adoption of a Minor
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so strong and irresistible that no other conclusion can reasonably be made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No principle of law is more firmly established than the principle that every child born in wedlock is presumed to be legitimate. . . . A court will not by its judgment brand an innocent child with the bar sinister unless the record is so far conclusive as to leave room for no other course.”
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.