Green v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Corbridge v. Corbridge (1952), 150 Ind. App. 371 - Grace v. Quigg (1971)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 239 Mo. App. 932 - Cervantes v. Cervantes · 241 Mo. App. 21 - Swenson v. Swenson · Byrd v. Dennis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the child becomes emancipated, either by the voluntary act of the parent responsible for its support, or constructively by the assumption of a status or position inconsistent with subjection to the parent’s care and control, not only will the mother herself incur no necessary expense for the child’s support, but even the father’s primary duty to support the child will likewise be extinguished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. Burton““ * * * the fact that such liability has now ceased to exist does not in any sense relieve defendant from any liability which has already accrued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steckler v. Steckler
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.