Keller v. Guernsey’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably 25 Kan. App. 2d 552 - Gentzel v. Williams (1998), State Ex Rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer (1993)
2 district · 24 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 Wear v. Wear · Bleakley v. Barclay · Doughty ex rel. Woods v. Engler · Grimes v. Grimes · Strecker v. Wilkinson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A parent’s duty of support may be enforced in civil proceedings in one or more of at least three ways. Depending upon the circumstances of the individual case, the proper remedy may be: (1) proceedings under 60-1610(a); (2) proceedings under 23-451 et seq.; or (3) an action to enforce the common law duty of support.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnworth v. Hughes
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.