Demonet v. Burkart’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2008
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Ramsey v. Ramsey · Stillman v. Stillman · Brow v. Brightman · Zilley v. Dunwiddie · Husband v. Husband
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inasmuch as the jurisdiction of the courts over the custody and support of children in divorce cases is a continuing one, the court below had the undoubted right to reopen the case, and upon a proper showing award the future custody of the child to the mother, and to decree its future support against the father. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elkins v. Elkins
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.