66 Wash. 2d 780 - Davidson v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably 98 Ill. App. 3d 928 - Sullivan v. Sullivan (1981), Commonwealth of Virginia v. Autry (1982)
49 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Lambrou v. Berna · Rosenberg v. Rosenberg · 93 So. 2d 90 - Thompson v. Thompson · Moore v. Moore · Hicks v. Hicks
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Duty of support" includes any duty of support imposed or imposable by law, or by any court order, decree or judgment, whether interlocutory or final, whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, separate maintenance or otherwise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The remedies herein provided are in addition to and not in substitution for any other remedies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Duties of support applicable under this law are those imposed or imposable under the laws of any state where the obligor was present during the period for which support is sought. . . .”
2 later decisions 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.