Burnette v. Void’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2015
21 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 Simmons v. Simmons · Howard v. Howard · 8 Cal. App. 3d 636 - Williams v. Williams · Bartlett v. Bartlett · Heflinger v. Heflinger
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the District of Columbia parents have an unqualified obligation to contribute to the support of their children.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re T.R.J. · In Re TRJ“Any order requiring payment of an amount of child support, regardless of whether the amount of the child support was the subject of a voluntary agreement of the parties, may be modified upon a showing that there has been a substantial and material change in the needs of the child or the ability of the responsible relative to pay since the day on which the order was issued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prisco v. Stroup“[c]hild support is a right which belongs to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaw v. Dme
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.