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← 201 VA 829 - Midkiff v. Midkiff

Midkiff v. Midkiff’s Empirical Analysis

1960

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
10
states following
May 2010
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Merenoff v. Merenoff (1978), Smith v. Kauffman (1971)

38 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · Dunlap v. Dunlap · Worrell v. Worrell · Rozell v. Rozell · Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Gretakis

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

  1. ““Family Relations. — The cases uniformly hold or assume that the fact of relationship by blood or marriage, other than that of parent and child or husband and wife, between the tort-feasor and the person injured does not preclude the maintenance of an action for such injuries. The rule has been applied to actions between brothers and sisters. * * *””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Herrell v. Haney
  2. “The common law does not consist of definite rules which are absolute, fixed, and immutable like the statute law, but it is a flexible body of principles which are designed to meet, and are susceptible of adaptation to, new institutions, conditions, usages, and practices, as the progress of society may require....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. N.G. v. Schefer

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.