Featherstone v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Edwards v. Lowry (1986), Kelley v. Kelley (1994)
3 federal appellate · 78 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 Hammers v. Hammers · Carter v. Carter · Campbell v. Campbell · Mundy v. Hesson
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code § 20-108 gives the divorce court continuing jurisdiction to change or modify its decree concerning the custody and maintenance of minor children, and a contract between husband and wife cannot prevent the court from exercising this power.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“both parents of a child owe that child a duty of support during minority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caswell v. Lang
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.