74 Wash. 2d 253 - Chase v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 341 Pa. Super. 512 - Children & Youth Services of Allegheny County v. Chorgo (1985), 156 Ill. 2d 541 - In Re Marriage of Henry (1993)
3 federal appellate · 85 state decisions — followed in 21 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Occidental Life Insurance v. Powers · 50 Wash. 2d 577 - Koon v. Koon · Ambrose v. Moore · 27 Wash. 2d 176 - Small v. Bartyzel · 44 Wash. 2d 35 - Sanges v. Sanges
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The disability and resulting entitlement to social security are changes in condition of the parties to be considered in a modification proceedings [sic] but do not give rise to a modification or deduction without affirmative action by the court for they are not necessarily determinative. The father may be independently wealthy; or he may, in the interim, have inherited property. Benefits from private or public retirement systems may have accrued and become payable to him. In short, many developments. affecting the economic condition of the parties may have occurred which would not permit or warrant a modification of the decree to the extent of deducting the social security benefits for dependent children from the child support ordered in a decree of divorce.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a situation warranting modification of child support . . ., the court may make the modification effective either as of the time of filing the petition or as of the date of the decree of modification, or as of a time in between . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if ... premiums are paid with community funds, the insurance proceeds are community property.”
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.