Daniel v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 155 Wis. 2d 574 - In RE MARRIAGE OF SCHULZ v. Ystad (1990), Fuller v. Fuller (2005)
30 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 Headley v. Headley · Meredith v. Meredith · Wills v. Glunts · Frazier v. Rainey · West Point Pepperell, Inc. v. Springfield
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are by no means authorizing blanket modification of divorce decrees by private agreement. Under normal circumstances, [OCGA §§ 19-6-18 and 19-6-19 provide] the proper method by which child support provisions of a divorce decree may be revised or modified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be given credit if equity would so dictate under the particular circumstances involved, provided that such an allowance would not do an injustice to the [child support payee].”
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.