Abrams v. Connolly’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lovejoy v. Commissioner (2002), C.R.S. v. T.A.M. (1995)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Antonopoulos v. Town of Telluride · Root v. Allen · Brown v. Brown · Coulter v. Coulter · Southard ex rel. Southard v. Miles
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provisions for the support of a child are [not] terminated ... by the death of a parent obligated to support the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) By a person other than a parent, by filing a petition seeking custody of the child in the county where the child is permanently resident or where he is found, but only if the child is not in the physical custody of one of his parents; or (c) By a person other than a parent who has had physical custody of a child for a period of six months or more, if such action is commenced within six months of the termination of such physical custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree, the obligation to pay future maintenance is terminated upon the death of either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.