Durfee v. Durfee’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2018
11 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 Acton v. Deliran · Maughan v. Maughan · Grayson Roper Ltd. Partnership v. Finlinson · Rucker v. Dalton · Kinkella v. Baugh
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that the parties may have anticipated [a substantial material change in circumstances] in their own minds or in their discussions does not mean that the [prior order] itself contemplates the change. In order for a material change in circumstances to be contemplated in a [child support order,] there must be evidence, preferably in the form of a provision within the decree itself, that the trial court anticipated the specific change."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a showing of a substantial change of circumstances occurring since the entry of the decree and not contemplated in the decree itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“continuing jurisdiction to modify child support obligations,”
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.