Barabas v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2022
15 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Bobo v. Jewell · Estate of Lund · 28 Cal. 3d 640 - In Re Marriage of Schiffman · Herdman v. Schiffman · Secretary of the Commonwealth v. City Clerk of Lowell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law recognized that unmarried mothers obtained their parental rights by giving birth to the child, while fathers obtained their parental rights through marriage. It followed that unmarried mothers possessed greater parental rights than did putative fathers, and in fact, some commentators stated that fathers had no rights with regard to their nonmarital children. Accordingly, it became customary for nonmarital children to assume their mother’s surname at birth rather than their father’s .... [N] either custom nor the common law recognized a father’s right to have his nonmarital children bear his surname. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A change in surname, so that a child no longer bears the name of a custodial parent, not only is of inherent concern to the custodial parent but is, in a real sense, a change in status having significant societal implications. Once a surname has been selected for a child, be it the maternal, paternal, or some combination of the child’s parent’s surnames, a change in the child’s surname should be granted only when the change promotes the child’s best interests.”
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.