Wulff v. Wulff’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Kelly v. Kelly (1994), Wilson v. Misko (1993)
69 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 Maddux v. Maddux · UHING ON BEHALF OF JONES v. Uhing · 384 Pa. Super. 188 - Griffin v. Griffin · Schlup v. Auburn Needleworks, Inc. · Phelps v. Phelps
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]o emancipate means to free or release a child from the parental power, making the person released sui juris. . . . ‘Emancipation,’ as the term is used in the law of parent and child, means the freeing of the child for the period of its minority from the care, custody, control, and service of its parents.... Complete emancipation gives to the minor his time and earnings and does away with the parent’s right of custody and control. . . . Emancipation occurs where the parent renounces all the legal duties and voluntarily surrenders all the legal rights of his position to the child or to others. In determining whether a child has been emancipated, the intention of the parent governs....””
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.