388 So. 2d 1048 - Chapman v. Lamm’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Philpott v. Essex County Welfare Board · 339 So. 2d 650 - Faircloth v. Faircloth · 193 So. 2d 26 - State Ex Rel. Gillham v. Phillips · 245 So. 2d 665 - Keena v. Keena · 281 So. 2d 607 - Gersten v. Gersten
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.
“We would not in any way indicate that ... [the father] is not to be susceptible to punishment for his failure, as a father, to help to support his children. The propogation of children for others to support is an evil that is all too prevalent in our social system and one that threatens its stability. Nevertheless, a defaulting father must be accorded due process of law if he is to be imprisoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowen v. Bowen“When the obligation has been converted into a debt to a third person, it no longer carries the public necessity for enforcement by imprisonment... . The fact that the State is the third party does not transfer to the State a greater right to the remedy of contempt than that held by a private litigant.”
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.