Eldred v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2018
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Cartwright v. McGown · Blackburn v. Crawfords · Hynes v. . McDermott · Barnum v. Barnum · White v. White
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This [strong presumption] is especially true in a case involving legitimacy. The law presumes morality; marriage, and not concubinage ; legitimacy and not bastardy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur marital laws are plain and simple, not difficult to understand by the humblest citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick
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.