38 Wash. 2d 390 - Van Tinker v. Van Tinker’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 592 - Childers v. Childers (1978), 80 Wash. 2d 736 - Baker v. Baker (1972)
29 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 Borchert v. Borchert · Springstun v. Springstun · Wells v. Wells · Schultz v. Western Farm Tractor Co. · Boehler v. Boehler
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These authorities, and many others which might be cited, pronounce the rule to be that the legal duty of a parent to support his normal children ceases at the age of majority, but if any of them are so defective as to be incapable of self-support he owes a continuing obligation of support as long as. it is necessary. This obligation is one created by the common law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“jurisdiction of the court to enforce the support order terminates upon children reaching the age of majority”
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.