Pierce v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2017
18 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 State v. Theriot · 388 So. 2d 377 - Dubroc v. Dubroc · 352 So. 2d 1013 - Halcomb v. Halcomb · Walder v. Walder · Seifert v. Seifert
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fathers and mothers, by the very act of marrying, contract together the obligation of supporting, maintaining, and educating their children.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Monk] does not stand for the proposition that agreements to waive child support are fully enforceable; on the contrary it recognized the mother will have a valid cause of action for child support when she uses in support of the child all the consideration received for the waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the parties clearly agree to a suspension of the payments, and such agreement does not interrupt the child's maintenance or upbringing or otherwise work to his detriment.”
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.