74 Wash. 2d 708 - French v. French’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1993
5 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 48 Wash. 2d 373 - Ditmar v. Ditmar · Briggs v. Briggs · 50 Wash. 2d 577 - Koon v. Koon · 30 Wash. 2d 609 - Bradley v. Fowler · 59 Wash. 2d 468 - Martin v. Martin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, special considerations of an equitable nature may justify a court in crediting such payments [those made directly to or for the benefit of the child] on his indebtedness to the mother, when that can be done without injustice to her. [Citing case.] The courts are justifiably reluctant to lay down any general rules as to when such credits may be allowed. Our cases, too, differ as to what constitutes special considerations of such an equitable nature as to justify an exception to the general rule; but there can be no question as to the father’s responsibility to prove that they exist, if he is to have any payments he has made directly to or on behalf of the child credited to his accrued indebtedness for child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equity does not compel a person to pay or provide double support for his children.”
1 later decision 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.