Briggs v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bunn v. Bunn (1964), Newton v. Newton (1961)
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Cotton v. Wright · Mooty v. Mooty · Mason v. Mason · Henderson v. Henderson · Phy v. Phy
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule is to the effect that, when a defendant husband is required by a divorce decree to pay to the plaintiff money for the support of the children and the unpaid and accrued installments become judgments in favor of the plaintiff, he cannot, as a matter of law, claim credit on account of payments voluntarily made directly to the children, though special considerations of an equitable nature may justify a court in crediting such payments on his indebtedness to the plaintiff when that can be done without injustice to the plaintiff wife. Circumstances might also arise which would render it inequitable for the court to lend its aid in compelling the defendant to pay the same amount to the plaintiff which he had already expended in support of the children. * * *" 178 Or. at 204 , 165 P.2d 772 . (Citations omitted.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n view of the apparent consent of the plaintiff and the equities of the situation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The payments to the children themselves do not appear to have been made as payments upon alimony, but were rather the result of his fatherly inter est in the welfare of those children. We do not believe he should be permitted to charge them to plaintiff. By so doing he would be determining for Mrs. Openshaw the manner in which she should expend her allowances. It is a very easy thing for children to say their mother will not give them money, especially as they may realize that such a plea is effective in attaining their ends. If she is not treating them right the courts are open to the father for redress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steckler v. Steckler
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.