Burnap v. Burnap’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1989
17 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 Cheever v. Kelly
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . • In the Cheever case the cause of action for support of minor children was not based on any judgment previously rendered, but was based solely on the father’s common-law duty to support his children. In such cases the proceeding is, in its nature, equitable, and the mother can recover nothing except reasonable expenditures made necessary by the neglect of parental duty.” (p. 569.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ortiz v. Ortiz““Defendant assumes, and under the pleadings correctly assumes, the law of Colorado is the same as the law of Kansas. . . . The district court properly held the Colorado court had no power to modify its judgment with respect to amounts due and unpaid. The judgment was final so far as they were concerned.” (p. 569.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Davis
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.