Borchert v. Borchert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 state decisions

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"However desirable it may be for some power to exist by which a father may be compelled to support his son, ... the Legislature has not seen fit to make the failure to do so a criminal offense although it has so designated such failure in other domestic situations heretofore mentioned. The omission by the legislative branch of the government of such a statute is an indication that the failure to support an incapacitated child is placed by it on a different footing from the failure to support a minor child. We cannot now without further legislative action hold that the divorce statute attempted to be invoked in this case is enlarged to include other than minor children."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sininger v. Sininger · Trembow v. Schonfeld

2. “Neither of these statutes attempts any definition or enlargement of the word "children” and unless we attempt judicial legislation that word must be construed as meaning children in the ordinary sense; that is those who have not reached their majority.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sininger v. Sininger · 45 Md. App. 313 - Colburn v. Colburn

3. “[N]o person is bound to provide a maintenance for his issue unless where the children are impotent and unable to work, either through infancy, disease or accident, and then is only obligated to find them with necessaries.... 1 Blackstone's Commentaries 449 (Lewis's ed. 1898).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sininger v. Sininger