47 Wash. 2d 816 - Abel v. Abel’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1996
20 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 Cozard v. Cozard · Quient v. Quient
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as shall appear just and equitable . . . for the custody, support and education of the minor children of such marriage . . .”
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.