Trunkey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1966
7 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 Trunkey v. Johnson · Beasley v. Salkeld
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In this state, and it is not shown to be otherwise in Washington, a decree of a court in a divorce case giving the custody of minor children of the parties to the wife and requiring the husband to pay a definite sum at stated intervals into court for the support of the children, does not make the sums to be paid a lien upon any property of the husband...." (p. 807.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brieger v. Brieger
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.