Etchison v. Greathouse’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parham v. Hughes · Town of Lockport New York v. Citizens for Community Action at Local Level Inc · Davis v. Davis · Home of the Holy Infancy v. Kaska · Byrd v. Travelers Insurance Company
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the plaintiff is absent from the responding state and the defendant presents evidence which constitutes a defense, the court shall continue the case for further hearing and the submission of evidence by both parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saunders v. Saunders
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.