77 Misc. 2d 155 - Cox v. Stretton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 13 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While children may expect “future care, affection, training and financial support,” they have no vested right to it. . . . There is no “proportional” share of their parents’ worldly goods to which children are entitled and except that parents are bound to provide for their children and keep them from the public rolls . . ., infants are not entitled as a matter of right to any specific share of their parents’ wealth, much less their “care,” “affection” or “training.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 71 N.C. App. 289 - Azzolino v. Dingfelder

2. ““There is no ‘proportional’ share of their parents’ worldly goods to which children are entitled and ... infants are not entitled as a matter of right to any specific share of their parents' wealth, much less their ‘care,’ ‘affection’ or ‘training.’ ” 352 N.Y.S.2d at 840 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 510 F. Supp. 146 - White v. United States