8 N.C. App. 583 - State v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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.

1. ““This period of time which the law recognizes is the period of time during which the child could have been conceived is a period of time sometimes referred to in the law as normal period of gestation. May be anywhere from seven, eight, nine, nine and a half or ten months from the date of birth of the child, and the only way the assumption (presumption) of legitimacy may be rebutted is by evidence tending to show the husband could not have had access to the wife during the period of time referred to.” [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. White

2. ““It is presumed that a child born in wedlock is the legitimate child of that marriage unless it is shown that the husband could not have had access to the spouse at a time when the child could have been conceived or that the husband was impotent or that other circumstances would prevent the husband from being the father of the child.” See 10 C.J.S. Bastards § 3b. (1938).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. White