97 Wash. 2d 445 - Miller v. Sybouts’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 107 Wash. 2d 300 - Nast v. Michels (1986), 104 Wash. 2d 142 - State v. Santos (1985)
34 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.
Relationships
Relies on 87 Wash. 2d 280 - Hayes v. Yount · 80 Wash. 2d 283 - Snow's Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Morgan · 92 Wash. 2d 930 - State v. Douty · 74 Wash. 2d 669 - Safeco Insurance v. Dairyland Mutual Insurance · McFadden v. Allen-Nelson Mill Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Presumption of paternity. A man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if: (3) After the child's birth, he and the child's natural mother have married, or attempted to marry, each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and (a) he has acknowledged his paternity of the child in writing filed with the registrar of vital statistics, (b) with his consent, he is named as the child's father on the child's birth certificate, or (c) he is obligated to support the child under a written voluntary promise or by court order;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“of equalizing the rights of all children, regardless of the marital status of the parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any interested party or the department of social and health services or the state of Washington may bring an action at any time for the purpose of determining the existence or nonexistence of the father and child relationship." See also Miller v. Sybouts, 97 Wn.2d 445, 448 , 645 P.2d 1082 (1982).”
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.