Stitle v. Stitle’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 176 Ind. App. 211 - Haycraft v. Haycraft (1978), Whitman v. Whitman (1980)
53 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 Corbridge v. Corbridge · Zirkle v. Zirkle · 128 Ind. App. 299 - Biedron v. Biedron · 108 Ind. App. 553 - Ginn v. Ginn
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Emancipation frees a child from the care, custody and control of its parents, what constitutes emancipation of a minor child is a question of law, but whether there has been an emancipation is a question of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`required to make the payments in the manner, amount and at the times required by the support order embodied in the divorce decree, at least until such order was modified or set aside, '”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In this state after support installments have accrued, the court is without power to reduce, annul or vacate such orders retrospectively, and therefore the court committed error in attempting to do so.” (Citations omitted)”
2 later decisions 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.