91 Mich. App. 284 - Smith v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2012
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The announced public policy of this state is to treat children born out of wedlock as no less deserving of support than those born in wedlock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he purpose of the Paternity Act is to provide for the support of an illegitimate 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.