2 Ark. App. 75 - Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2015
14 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 Upchurch v. Upchurch · Petty v. Petty · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Foreman · Jerry v. Jerry · Matthews v. Matthews
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A number of Arkansas cases have held that a parent has a legal obligation to contribute to the education of an adult child, but in every case so holding there has been a circumstance of special need. In Petty v. Petty, 252 Ark. 1032 , 482 S.W.2d 119 (1972), the Court held that support should be continued past majority where the daughter was afflicted with epilepsy and was in need of specialized training to obtain employment. In Elkins v. Elkins, 262 Ark. 63 , 553 S.W.2d 34 (1977), the father was required to continue child support payments as long as his handicapped adult child was in college. In Matthews v. Matthews, 245 Ark. 1 , 430 S.W.2d 864 (1968), the Court ordered support continued for an eighteen-year-old child until she graduated from high school.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aikens v. Lee
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.