Sisco v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1837
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 1978
most recently cited
1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a single woman has been delivered of a bastard child, there is nothing which requires that she should remain such, when the oath is made, and the proceeding is taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. DeCoster v. Chandler
How this case has been treated — in progress
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