Scanlon v. Walshe’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Merchants Mortgage Co. v. Lubow (1975), Estate of Walker (1919)
2 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 The Lessee of Henry Brewer v. Jacob Blougher · Craufurd v. Blackburn · Hawbecker v. Hawbecker · Edes v. Garey · Hall v. McCann
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This section was before this court for construction in the case of Hawbecker v. Hawbecker, 43 Md. 516 , where a married man had by his wife four children born in lawful wedlock, and during the life of his wife he also had sis children by another woman. His wife died, and he subsequently married the mother of the last-mentioned children, whom he acknowledged as his, and treated them as he did the children of his first wife. It was very earnestly contended in that case that the section above quoted should not be cohstrued so as to include within its terms a ease in which children are conceived and born when their parents are under impediment to marry. But it was held that although the legislature, no doubt, in thus mitigating the severe rule of the common law, intended to hold out to the surviving parents an inducement to marry, and thus put a stop to the further illicit intercourse between them, yet ‘the main purpose and intent of the enactment .... was to remove the taint and disabilities of bastardy from the unoffending children, whenever their parents did marry, without regard to the deepness of guilt on the part of their parents.’ . . . . The legislature has not seen fit to make any exceptions to its operations. Its terms embrace every case where ‘any man shall have a child or children by any woman whom he shall afterward marry.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bates v. Meade““It is fortunate that courts of justice are seldom called upon to consider a case in which the facts are so shocking to every sense of decency and morality as those presented by the record now before us."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rudnick v. Shoenberg
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.