Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2005
4 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 Fender v. Fender
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clear import of the decision in that case [Fender] is that where the circumstances warrant the court has the power to order the father to provide for the college education of his minor children including provisions of a fund, by life insurance, effective upon his death, for the continued support and education of such minor children.” 264 S. C. at 603, 216 S. E. (2d) at 531 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Brown
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.