MacAluso v. MacAluso’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2017
12 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 388 So. 2d 377 - Dubroc v. Dubroc · Adoption of Latiolais · In Re EWB · 376 So. 2d 555 - Adoption of Latiolais · 496 So. 2d 521 - Patrick v. Patrick
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The public policy behind a parent's duty of support is to ensure, both for the sake of the child and the sake of the general public which might otherwise have to provide his support, that each child receives support sufficient for his maintenance and upbringing.... To enforce the portion of a judgment containing a provision such as the one in question, would clearly be repugnant to the public policy behind a parent's duty of support. [13]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly ... repugnant to the public policy behind a parent's duty of support.”
1 later decision 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.