Wright v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Christensen v. NCH Corp. (1998), Lashbrook v. Lashbrook (1998)
29 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Guin v. Ha · 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger · 40 Cal. 3d 5 - State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board · Breck v. Ulmer
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the child is deprived of the mother's potential action to hold the natural father responsible for the support of the child; (2) the child gives his love and affection to the husband, expecting care and support until adulthood. Denying paternity later inflicts an emotional injury on the child; (3) the child, who has held himself out as legitimate, suffers a social injury when that status is removed. [12]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. B.E.B. v. R.L.B. · Beb v. Rlb“[w]hether the superior court has the power to apply the doctrine of equitable estoppel to cases where a father denies paternity is ... a question of law[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. B.E.B. v. R.L.B. · Beb v. Rlb“'We conclude that the application of equitable estop-pel to paternity cases advances sound policies in the law, and therefore adopt its application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beb v. Rlb · Osterkamp v. Stiles
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.