Fullen v. Fullen’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Gomez (1997), Garcia on Behalf of Garcia v. La Farge (1995)
99 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 Bronson v. Schulten · Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. Philomme Smith · Goldenberg v. Law · President of the Bank of Alabama v. Simonton · James v. Hood
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principle upon which allowances are made against the husband for the support of minor children awarded to the wife in divorce cases is that it is the primary common-law duty of the husband to support his children; that this duty continues with him when, from his own fault, the marriage relation is dissolved, and the society and services of the children are taken from him and committed to the wife for his fault. 2 Bishop, Mar., Div. & Sep. § 1223; Spencer v. Spencer, 97 Minn. 56 , 105 N. W. 483 , 2 D. R. A. (N. S.) 851, 114 Am. St. Rep. 695 , 7 Ann. Cas. 901, and note; Graham v. Graham, 38 Colo. 453 , 88 P. 852 , 8 D. R. A. (N. S.) 1270, 12 Ann. Cas. 137, and note. “On the contrary, where the husband obtains a divorce for the wife’s fault, as in this case, it has been held that she has no claims upon the husband for their support. Fulton v. Fulton, 52 Ohio St. 229 , 39 N. E. 729 , 29 D. R. A. 678, 49 Am. St. Rep. 720 . “This holding would seem to be entirely correct in so far as it prevents a recovery against the husband for necessaries furnished by her, she being the cause of the marital difficulties. That was the case before the court. But even in that case, and in the circumstances there present, it was recognized that the necessities 'of the infants might require the father’s contribution to their relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDaniel v. McDaniel“The services of trained and skilled lawyers, thoroughly conversant with the facts and the law of the case, and thoroughly alive to the interests of their respective clients, are required to assist the court in arriving at the correct conclusions. The nature of the subject is such that the court, although always endeavoring to do full justice, is unable, alone, always to see fully and clearly all of the avenues leading to the truth, either of law or fact.”
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.