Walbert v. Farina’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1981
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Carpenelli v. Scranton Bus Co. · Gentile v. Philadelphia & Reading Ry. · Risbon v. Cottom · Bizich v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Patton v. Franc
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A husband and father is presumed to perform the legal duty of supporting his wife and minor children; in any event, they are entitled to what the law would have compelled him to furnish them, whether he had previously done so or not. Id., 274 Pa. at 339 , 118 A. at 224 (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions 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.