Dalton v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2011
13 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 Whitby v. Whitby · Roper v. Roper · 30 Wash. 2d 609 - Bradley v. Fowler · Shallcross v. Shallcross · Boehmer v. Boehmer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever infractions of the custodial judgment there may have been on the mother’s part, the children should not be deprived of their natural and legal right of support from their father on account of the dissensions of their parents for causes of which they are innocent (Cf. Campbell v. Campbell, 213 Ky. 621 , 281 S. W. 800 ), and the father may not evade his obligation to support his children on the ground of such dissensions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““.. . In accord with a majority of the jurisdictions, we hold that unpaid periodical payments for maintenance of children, like that for alimony, become vested when due. The accrued sum of delinquencies is a fixed and liquidated debt, and the court has no power to modify the judgment as to it. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Raikes
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.