Fitzgerald v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc. (1982), Archibeque v. Homrich (1975)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 Gillikin v. Burbage · Mozert v. Noeding · Yellow Cab Co. of D. C., Inc. v. Dreslin · Silva v. Waldie · Bouldin v. Sategna
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such an alteration [emancipation] also occurs by operation of law. In the usual situation, the parental relationship is severed when the child reaches majority because the law fixes that as the point in time for parental rights and liabilities to cease. [Citations omitted.] * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Phelps““ * * *. Emancipation as between parent and child is the severance of the parental relationship so far as legal rights and liabilities are concerned. [Citation omitted.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. Phelps
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.