Blythe v. Ayres’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 816 - Steven A. v. Rickie M. (1992), Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 20 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 In re the Estate of Jessup · Ross v. Ross · The Lessee of Henry Brewer v. Jacob Blougher · Kelly v. Owen · Miller v. . Miller
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The father of an illegitimate child by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such; and such child is thereupon deemed for all purposes legitimate from the time of its birth. The foregoing provisions of this chapter do not apply to such an adoption.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“A child born before wedlock becomes legitimate by the subsequent marriage of its parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I dissent from the proposition that plaintiff was adopted by deceased under section 230 . . . How can there be a compliance with a statute in the absence of conditions contemplated by the statute, and absolutely necessary to give it effect? The provision of the code in question assumes the existence of a family; and it assumes that there may be a family in which there is no wife, because it provides that if there be a wife she must consent to receive the illegitimate child into the family. . . . There must, however, be a family into which the child can be received; and when that condition is not present, the provision of the code under discussion can have no operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.