Ellen L. Thomason v. William R. Thomason’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Violet S. David v. Lester S. Blumenthal (1961), Sarah S. Wagner v. Charles A. Wagner (1961)
20 federal appellate · 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 Kansas v. Missouri · United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Central Railroad v. Director, Division of Tax Appeals of the Department of the Treasury · Rotan v. Greenbaum · Kephart v. Kephart
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 11-762. Jurisdiction. 7 "The Domestic Relations Branch [of the Municipal Court] and each judge sitting therein shall have exclusive jurisdiction over * * * civil actions to enforce support of minor children * * *.; 3 determinations and adjudications of property rights, both real and personal, in any action hereinabove referred to in this section, irrespective of any jurisdictional limitation imposed on the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia * * *. 8 "§ 11-763. Power of Court to effectuate purposes for which created. 9 "(a) The Domestic Relations Branch is hereby vested with so much of the power as is now vested in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, whether in law or in equity, as is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, including but not limited to, the power to issue restraining orders, injunctions, * * * and all * * * writs, orders, and decrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"A money judgment for arrears in payments due under a decree for the support of minor children is available as a means of enforcing collection. It is a means of enforcing an original decree, which decree is prospective in nature. Thus the money judgment is as much a part of the effort to enforce support of minor children as is the original decree. A complaint seeking such a money judgment is a civil action to enforce the support of minor children."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaissert v. Gaissert“"The term `civil actions' includes all actions, both those formerly known as equitable actions and those known as legal actions; or, in other phraseology, both suits in equity and actions at law. * * *" [3]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaissert v. Gaissert
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.