Corbridge v. Corbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Goodyear v. Goodyear (1962), 166 Ind. App. 409 - Linton v. Linton (1975)
112 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Morrissey · United States v. Williams · State Ex Rel. Harp v. Vanderburgh Circuit Court · Adair v. Superior Court · Iroquois Iron Co. v. Industrial Commission
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the child becomes unable to support itself, the father's duty [to support the child] revives”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“■ “We realize the force of the general rule that until a judgment is entered'the cause is in fieri, send a court can amend, ' modify or change its decision,...””
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.