Majors v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2015
7 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 State Ex Rel. Balsinger v. Town of Madisonville · Bingham v. Dyersburg Fabrics Co., Inc. · Muse v. Sluder · Morrow v. Thompson · Robinson v. Tabb
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he requirements of clear and convincing proof is [sic] not satisfied by circumstances which merely "suggest" or imply parentage, or even support probability. The circumstances must be such as to produce a state of conviction (by convincing) that the desired fact is indeed true. Of course, the credibility of witness [sic] is an entirely separate question, for the finder of fact must first determine which testimony will be believed and which will not be believed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The existence of a child born out of wedlock is not ordinarily announced with blaring trumpets to all who may hear. More often, it is a private affair, confided only to confidential friends. The fact that others were not told is, if circumstantial at all, a very weak circumstance.”
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.