Limberg v. Limberg’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1987
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The very language of the statute presupposes that the children referred to are the children of the parties. Revisions under that statute are based upon a change in the circumstances of the parents or of their children. The continuing jurisdiction of the trial court is limited to the purposes therein stated, . . .” Limberg v. Limberg, supra, at page 68.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The order of January 2, 1958, referring to the children of the parties necessarily included Brian and is an indication that the trial court had so determined by the findings and judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant had ample opportunity during the trial to ask for an adjournment thereof until the child had been born and then to request blood tests.... He is too late now to attempt to try a new approach to the old problem that was determined by the judgment.”
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.