Pendexter v. Pendexter’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Harmon v. Emerson (1981), State v. Dabkowski (1986)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Conway v. Dana · 56 Ala. App. 318 - Womble v. Womble · Bedell v. Reagan · Allison v. Allison · Boerger v. American General Insurance Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]upport, as every other duty arising from the relationship of parent and child, is the equal responsibility of both mother and father, to be discharged in accordance with their respective capacity and ability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Perry · Wood v. Wood““[i]n fixing the amount to be contributed by . [each spouse] for the support of the minor children of divorced parents, the court should consider the needs of the children, the assets of each parent, their respective ages, earning capacities, incomes and indebtedness, state of health, future prospects, the existence of other dependents, and any other factors which will aid the court in reaching- a just and equitable result, having in mind that "the primary state purpose is to implement the natural duty of both parents to support their offspring.” 363 A.2d at 750 (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Perry““The State has an interest in the welfare of the child, and in all divorce proceedings that welfare is held to be superi- or to the wishes of the parent, and governs the court in its decrees as to custody and maintenance. This jealous regard for the rights of the child should look askance at contracts between parents attempting to shift the legal responsibility. The relation between husband and wife is one thing; that between parent and child is quite another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arsenault v. Carrier
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.