Beaird v. Beaird’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1988
1 district · 21 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Brito v. Brito · Lamb v. Ed Maher, Inc. · Scott v. Fort Worth Nat. Bank · Shaw v. First State Bank of Iowa Park
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very fact that one child reaches the age of eighteen, and the appellant is thereby no longer legally required to contribute to his support, does not automatically reduce the child support payments by one-half, as contended by appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Friedman v. Friedman
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.