Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
September 1986
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Central Railroad v. Director, Division of Tax Appeals of the Department of the Treasury · Kephart v. Kephart · Edmonds v. Edmonds · Britt v. Britt
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are further convinced that the trial court was without authority to appoint a trustee to take over the accumulated support payments made by the father through the clerk’s office. These monies represent contributions for specific periods for current support and cannot be kept, when not used for that purpose, for anticipated future needs of the children. 10”
1 later decision 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.