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← 353 S.C. 230 - Riggs v. Riggs

Riggs v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Glasscock v. Glasscock · Castle v. Castle · Thornton v. Thornton · 100 N.J. Super. 107 - Kruvant v. Kruvant

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to be consistent with this common law duty and h[e]ld the family court is vested with jurisdiction to order child support for an unemancipated disabled adult child.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a common law duty of parental support for a child who has reached majority but is so physically or mentally disabled as to be unable to support herself.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[w]here the disability prevents the child from becoming emancipated, the presumption of emancipation upon reaching majority is inapplicable.”
    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.