Trevarton v. Trevarton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Sorensen v. Sorensen (1975), Dzenutis v. Dzenutis (1986)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Dunlap v. Dunlap · Hewlett v. George · Roller v. Roller · McKelvey v. McKelvey · Worrell v. Worrell
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... none of the arguments [reasons] which have been discussed above provides a logical and just basis for an absolute rule of immunity applicable to all actions arising in tort for the recovery of persons injury damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The peace of society, and of the families composing society, and a sound public policy, designed to subserve the repose of families and the best interests of society forbid to the minor child a right to appear in court in the assertion of a claim to civil redress for personal injuries suffered at the hands of the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally speaking, an unemancipated minor child has no right of action against a parent ... unless a right of action is authorized by statute ....”
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.