Kipper v. Vokolek’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Lloyd v. Loeffler (1982), 204 W. Va. 95 - Kessel v. Leavitt (1998)
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Hayes v. Hayes · Laclede Gas Company v. Hampton Speedway Company · 221 Cal. App. 2d 431 - Rosefield v. Rosefield · 62 Misc. 2d 182 - MC GRADY v. Rosenbaum · 239 Mo. App. 317 - Mahan v. Mahan
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 700 Causing Minor Child to Leave or not to Return Home One who, with knowledge that the parent does not consent, abducts or otherwise compels or induces a minor child to leave a parent legally entitled to its custody or not to return to the parent after it has been left him, is subject to liability to the parent, (emphasis added.) Comment: [[Image here]] c. When both parents entitled to custody and earnings, (emphasis theirs) When parents are by law jointly entitled to the custody and earnings of the child, no action can be brought against one of the parents who abducts or induces the child to leave the other. When by law only one parent is entitled to the custody and earnings of the child, only that parent can maintain an action under the rule stated in this Section. One parent may be liable to the other parent for the abduction of his own child if by judicial decree the sole custody of the child has been awarded to the other parent, (emphasis added). d. Necessity of loss of service, (emphasis theirs) Under the rule stated in this Section, loss of service or impairment of ability to perform service is not a necessary element of a cause of action.... The deprivation to the parent of the society of the child is itself an injury that the law redresses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An application to the court for an order shall be by motion which, unless made during a hearing or trial, shall be made in writing, shall state with particularity the grounds therefor, and shall set forth the relief or order sought.”
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.