State Ex Rel. Doe v. Lavan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State alleged in its petition that Lavan was the “biological father” of X, [the child] but the State also alleged that John Doe was X’s “presumptive legal father ... because he was married to the mother ... at the time the child was conceived and/or born....” Under this pleading and § 13.01(a), the statutory cause of action can not be established as a matter of law, for the statutory action is only available “to establish the parent-child relationship between a child who has no presumed father and the child’s biological father....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Interest of B.I.V.

2. “A man is presumed to be the biological father of a child if: (1) he and the child’s biological mother are or have been married and the child is bom during the marriage ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Interest of B.I.V.