D. v. D.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2000
18 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 25 N.J. Misc. 180 - Schneider v. Schneider · State v. Monroe · Brinkerhoff v. Merselis' Executors
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.
“Assuming that the relationship once existed in this case, it has not continued to exist and it may not again exist without the husband meaning that it shall exist. Loco parentis has to do with custody, liability to support, and the like, and is temporary in character, and is not to be likened to that of adoption. The one is temporary in character, the other permanent and abiding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D. v. D.“the pension, the state court invaded an area over which the federal Veterans' Administration had control since it is the agency which has been granted by Congress the exclusive right to apportion the pension funds in accordance with the needs of the pensioner and his family. The fallacy of this argument is found in the premise that the support order effected a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D. v. D.“The proper definition of a person in loco parentis to a child is a person who means to put himself in the situation of the lawful father of the child with reference to the father's office and duty of making provision for the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D. v. D.
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.