Abbott v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2013
4 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 Cherry v. Cherry · Wilhoit v. Wilhoit · Phillips v. Green, Sheriff · Young v. Young · Showalter v. Showalter
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree, provisions for the support of a child are terminated by emancipation of the child but not by the death of a parent obligated to support the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leathers v. Ratliff
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.