Trunkey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1999
18 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 Sharp v. Sharp · Newman v. Burwell · Davis v. Davis · Myers v. Anderson · Scott v. Scott
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. As a general rule, statutes authorizing attachments on claims not due apply only where there is an existing indebtedness which will become due and payable by mere lapse of time, and a liability which is conditional or dependent upon the happening of some future event is not a debt within the meaning of such statutes. “2. The provisions of the code of civil procedure for attachment on a claim before it is due (G. S. 1935, 60-933, et seq.) do not create a cause of action but merely a method whereby a judgment based on a cause of action may be collected. “3. The liability of a father for the support of his minor child, either at common law or by virtue of an order made in a divorce proceedings between the parents, is not such as to create the relation of debtor and creditor between the father and the child or any person to whom its custody may have been awarded as to the future support of such child. “4. The liability for future support of a minor child last above mentioned is not a claim whithin the purview of the statutes referred to on [in] the second paragraph hereof.” (Syl.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilcox v. Wilcox“"The pleading here discloses no judgment for any stipulated amounts but only an order that from time to time in the future the father make certain payments. If unchanged the effect of the order would cease upon death of the child, or upon its marriage * * * or upon its having rights of majority cast upon it by operation of law * * * or upon its adoption by other persons." (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Quantius'will
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.