Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1991
22 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 Schwartz v. Durham · Davis v. Davis · Crook v. Crook · Bailey v. Superior Court · Wood v. Wood
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.
“The equities of natural justice in a given situation may turn a court of conscience away from the cold realm of technical legalism, whereby the court will not allow the prima facie wording of its decree to defeat the justice and propriety of an exemption from the duty therein imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It would therefore be inequitable to force him to pay twice for the support of the child. If defendant had custody of the child for only a short period of time, such as a vacation, the rule would of course be different, because in that instance plaintiff would have an overhead expense and her total expenses would be only slightly reduced.” 101 Ariz. at 384 , 420 P.2d at 169 . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t would certainly be inequitable to allow [the ex-wife] to collect money for support of a child during the time [the ex-husband] was actually supporting him.”
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.