Keene v. Toth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1997
17 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 Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Barry v. Sparks · Proctor v. Sachner · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Warren · Gediman v. Cameron
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that there would have been no such duty at common law. Miller’s Case, 244 Mass. 281, 283 . Creeley v. Creeley, 258 Mass. 460, 463 . Barry v. Sparks, 306 Mass. 80, 82-83 . See Gediman v. Cameron, 306 Mass. 138, 140 . But the rule is otherwise under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 273, §8, as amended by St. 1953, c. 505, which provides, ‘The legal duty of the parent or parents to support a minor child shall continue . . . notwithstanding any court decree granting custody of such child to another . . .’ The purpose of this part of §8 was to close a hole in the uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act and to this end was recommended by the Judicial Council. See 27th report for 1951, pages 20-21; 28th report for 1952, page 39.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Court', a district court of this commonwealth and, when the context requires, the court of any other state as defined in a [substantially similar] reciprocal law.... `Duty of support', any duty of support imposed by law, or by any court order.... `Initiating state', a state in which a proceeding pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or a [substantially similar] reciprocal law ... is commenced. `Obligee', any person to whom a duty of support is owed. `Obligor', any person owing a duty of support. `Responding state', a state in which a proceeding pursuant to the proceeding in the initiating state is ... commenced....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M v. W““Its need lies in the fact that the usual migrating and relluctant obligor leaves behind in a jurisdiction whence he has departed no property from which a judgment could be satisfied. In the rare .case where he does, the judgment can be enforced only as to amounts due when suit is brought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moss v. Wynn
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.