Huff v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Clark v. Amoco Production Co. (1986), Creech v. Addington (2009)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Freeman v. McAninch · Curtis v. Gibbs · Ogletree v. Crates
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On motion of any party entitled to receive payments for the benefit of a child, the court may render judgment against a defaulting party for any amount unpaid and owing after 10 days notice to the defaulting party of his failure or refusal to carry out the terms of the order. The judgment may be enforced by any means available for the enforcement of debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Castillo v. Castillo“[a]s motions to revive and enforce portions of a final judgment awarding child support, § 14.09(c) actions come within the direct purview of the statute of limitations governing the revival and enforcement of judgments, Art. 5532, the ten-year statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re SCS“we would be opening the door to the wholesale frustration of the ten-year statute of limitations for all final judgments in this important area of family law. Such a usurpation of the legislative function is beyond the jurisdiction of this [c]ourt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re TLK
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.