Durham v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2015
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 Morris v. Rabara
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.
“"Accordingly, the motion to dismiss will be granted and an order will be entered that this appeal be dismissed unless it shall be made to appear to this court, on or before 15 days from the date of the filing of this opinion, that the appellant has either purged himself of contempt or is in the custody of the Sheriff of Orange County." At 858.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gazil v. Gazil“it is contrary to the principles of justice to permit one who has flaunted the orders of the court to demand judicial assistance. An appellate court is authorized to enforce an order made by the lower court and which has been violated by a party to the proceedings.”
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.