Cason v. Cason’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2007
11 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 Shoaf v. Shoaf · Schadel v. Schadel · Bond v. Bond
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the legislature had intended to continue pre-existing child support orders beyond the reduced age of majority (18), it would have been very simple to do so. Certainly, the effect of the change in the age of majority upon the hundreds of existing child support decrees or orders was not overlooked. The failure to specifically refer to existing obligations for child support under court orders is persuasive that no intent existed to legislate as to the effect of the change in the age of majority on such child support obligations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Katz v. Katz
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.