Padgett v. Padgett’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2021
19 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 M. A. P. v. Ryan · United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Central Railroad v. Director, Division of Tax Appeals of the Department of the Treasury · Gull Airborne Instruments, Inc. v. Weinberger · Kephart v. Kephart
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A consent order is like a separation agreement, insofar as it is a type of contract and places the parties in a contractual relationship. It is also, however, an order of the court, indistinguishable in its legal effect from any other court order, and therefore subject to enforcement like any other order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Clark
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.