Thurman v. Etherton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2005
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 Goller v. White · Briere v. Briere · Balts v. Balts · 41 Wash. 2d 642 - Borst v. Borst · Hebel v. Hebel Ex Rel. Hebel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Public interest in maintaining family harmony and tranquility. (2) Maintenance of parental authority and discipline. (3) Prevention of fraud and collusion. (4) Preservation of equal distribution of the family exchequer. (5) Avoidance of useless litigation in that the parent may, in the event of the death of the child, inherit any money which the child may have recovered from the parent [and vice versa]. (6) Prevention of assertion of stale claims of minors on their reaching majority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bentley v. Bentley
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.