Damico v. Damico’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 504 - In Re Marriage of Comer (1996), Younie v. Gonya (In Re Younie) (1997)
3 federal appellate · 64 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Olivera v. Grace · 1 Cal. 3d 467 - Kulchar v. Kulchar · 27 Cal. 3d 645 - Moffat v. Moffat · 47 Cal. 2d 540 - Bennett v. Hibernia Bank · Hallett v. Slaughter
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n such circumstances the child's need for sustenance must be the paramount consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]other [was] seeking payment of the arrearages to herself, not to the child. The harm mother did to the child by denying it father's companionship and financial support should not now entitle her to arrearages, many years later, that can no longer benefit the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“offer the parent a simplified means by which to obtain modification of a support order. The simplified procedures were adopted to create a `relatively quick way to modify child support awards' in a proceeding at which neither party need engage an attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.