Richey v. Bolerjack’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2014
10 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 Benoit v. Wilson · Ex Parte Slavin · Williams v. Safety Casualty Co. · Ex Parte Jones · Houtchens v. Matthews
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a judgment must define in clear, specific, and unambiguous terms the duties and obligations imposed upon a party, (citations omitted). In short, a judgment must be sufficiently definite and certain to permit its enforcement by contempt or summary process, (citations omitted). Upon applying the foregoing rules to the case at bar, it is obvious that the support order of August 10, 1976, is so indefinite, uncertain, and ambiguous that it may not be enforced under enforcement provisions of Family Code, sections 14.09(c). 594 S.W.2d 798 .”
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.