Vineyard v. Hood’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[n]othing herein shall be construed to authorize a putative father to legitimate a child or to execute any voluntary acknowledgment of paternity without the consent of the mother of such child”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re C.K.G. · In Re CKG

2. “[n]othing herein shall be construed to authorize a putative father to legitimate a child or to execute any voluntary acknowledgment of paternity without the consent of the mother of such child " (emphasis added). In 1996, the Tennessee Court of Appeals held that requiring consent of the mother was constitutionally invalid. In re Hood, 930 S.W.2d 575, 580 (Tenn.Ct.App.1996) ("[W]e hold unconstitutional that part of T.C.A. § 36-2-202(c) which purports to disallow a putative father from attempting to legitimate his child without the mother's consent, on both due process and equal protection grounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re CKG