18 Va. App. 202 - Whitaker v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Jenkins v. Jenkins (1998), Drummond v. State (1998)
41 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Andler v. Andler · 57 Ala. App. 230 - Binns v. Maddox · Cash v. Cash · Horton v. Horton · Cohen v. Murphy
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he social security benefits received by the children are not gratuities, but are entitlements earned by [the non-custodial parent] through his earlier employment. They are a substitute for his lost ability to provide for the children through the fruits of future employment. They are much the same as benefits under a disability insurance policy.”
2 later decisions 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.