Early v. Early’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Walter v. Gunter (2002), Scott v. Jenkins (1997)
32 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 666 (§ 466 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Rohrbeck v. Rohrbeck · First Federated Commodity Trust Corp. v. Commissioner of Securities · Unnamed Attorney v. Attorney Grievance Commission · Carroll County Department of Social Services v. Edelmann · Tandra S. v. Tyrone W.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our cases, an irregularity which will permit a court to exercise revisory powers over an enrolled judgment has been consistently defined as the doing or not doing of that, in the conduct of a suit at law, which, conformable to the practice of the court, ought or ought not to be done[.] As a consequence, irregularity, in the contemplation of the Rule, usually means irregularity of process or procedure, and not an error, which in legal parlance, generally connotes a departure from truth or accuracy of which a defendant had notice and could have challenged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) Prerequisites. — The court may modify a child support award subsequent to the filing of a motion for modification and upon a showing of a material change of circumstance. (b) Retroactivity of modification. — The court may not retroactively modify a child support award prior to the date of the filing of the motion for modification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walter v. Gunter“Rule 2-535. Revisory power (b) Fraud, mistake, irregularity. On motion of any party filed at any time, the court may exercise revisory power and control over the judgment in case of fraud, mistake, or irregularity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spangler v. McQuitty
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.