77 Wash. 2d 6 - Sutherland v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 592 - Childers v. Childers (1978), 78 Ill. App. 3d 627 - In Re Marriage of Olsher (1979)
27 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 · 38 Wash. 2d 390 - Van Tinker v. Van Tinker · 23 Wash. 2d 382 - Herzog v. Herzog · 47 Wash. 2d 816 - Abel v. Abel · 68 Wash. 2d 97 - Bryant v. Bryant
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t follows that a mother cannot compel payments of support money for children whose dependency upon her has ceased by reason of death, emancipation by marriage, attainment of majority, service in the Armed Forces of the United States, adoption, incarceration in penal or other custodial institutions, or economic sufficiency resulting from earnings, gifts, or inheritance. In the absence of specific provisions to the contrary, there is a necessary implication in every decree for child support, that its binding effect shall extend into the future only for the period during which the children's dependency upon their custodian continues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmonds v. Edmonds“and shall make provision for costs, and for the custody, support and education of the minor children of such marriage.”
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.