Stringer v. Dudoich’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ocana v. American Furniture Co. (2004), 168 W. Va. 455 - State Ex Rel. SMB v. DAP (1981)
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Gomez v. Perez · Barrett v. Barrett · Petition of Quintana
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proceedings to enforce the obligation of the father shall not be brought after the lapse of more than two years from the birth of the child, unless paternity has been judicially established, or has been acknowledged by the father in writing or by the furnishing of support.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vigil v. Tafoya“A child has the right of support from his parents whether or not he is in their custody.”
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.