Filippone v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 335 N.J. Super. 465 - Cox v. Cox (2000), Mackowski v. Mackowski (1998)
39 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 Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Klusman v. Bucks County Court of Common Pleas · Newburgh v. Arrigo · Curtis v. Finneran · Quillen v. Quillen
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he essential inquiry is whether the child has moved 'beyond the sphere of influence and responsibility exercised by a parent and obtains an independent status of his or her own.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the parent relinquishes the right to custody and is relieved of the burden of support, and the child is no longer entitled to support.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Other states have, even more to the point, expressly held that a troubled minor's removal from his parents' home to a public or private institutional alternative or even to the home of friends or relatives does not relieve the parents of their support obligation during minority provided the child is not entirely self-supporting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.