Block v. Lieberman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2016
13 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 Kelly v. Kelly · Silcox v. Smith County
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The power and jurisdiction of a divorce court to review or make alterations of its orders touching the maintenance of the minor children ceases with such minority. Kelly v. Kelly, 329 Mo. 992 , 47 S.W.2d 762 (Banc.1932). The award of child support, although made to the mother, is for the benefit of the children, who because of their minority, lack the legal status to bring suit directly against their parent. “When the child reaches twenty-one however, this disability is removed and if an obligation to provide support exists, the child may proceed in his own right in a separate suit to establish such obligation. See State ex rel. Kramer v. Carroll, 309 S.W.2d 654 (Mo.App.1958). . . . The power of the court in the divorce action to provide for support of the child terminates when the child reaches 21.”
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.