Williams v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 612 So. 2d 1087 - City of Natchez, Miss. v. Sullivan · 207 Ill. 2d 393 - In Re Estate of Poole · Wilbourn v. Hobson · 473 So. 2d 402 - Allgood v. Bradford · 798 So. 2d 347 - Estate of Patterson v. Patterson
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.
“The provisions of this section shall apply ... to the natural father on account of the death of the illegitimate child or children, and they shall have all the benefits, rights and remedies conferred by this section on legitimates, if the survivor has or establishes the right to inherit from the deceased under Section 91-1-15.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the natural father of an illegitimate and his kindred shall not inherit: (i) From or through the child unless the father has openly treated the child as his, and has not refused or neglected to support the child.”
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.