State v. Galjour’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2014
19 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 In Re Owen · State v. McCloskey · Brana v. Brana
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... criminal in their nature, based on the failure or past omissions of the father to fulfill the obligation to support his children [which the criminal statute itself creates].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the order of court awarding ... alimony [is] merely an incidental or ancillary proceeding flowing from the divorce action and [is] based on [the parent's] obligation [under Civil Code Article 227] to support his children ....”
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.