Abrego v. Abrego’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2024
15 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 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski · McCoy v. Union Elevated Railroad · Taylor v. George · Blades v. Szatai · Sweeney v. Merchants National Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to which the insurance proceeds exemption statute is directed. The basis for child support is the natural obligation of a parent to support his or her children; the validity of their claim does not depend upon either contract or judgment. The purpose of exemption statutes ... is to protect the unfortunate debtor and save him a means of supporting his family. .... The duty of parents to provide support for their minor children is fundamental to the wellbeing of our society. This duty is, as the nineteenth century English jurist Blackstone described,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The common law, as modified by constitutional and statutory law, judicial decisions and the condition and wants of the people, shall remain in force in aid of the general statutes of Oklahoma; but the rule of the common law, that statutes in derogation thereof, shall be strictly construed, shall not be applicable to any general statute of Oklahoma; but all such statues shall be liberally construed to promote their object.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“should he pass away. With this, we agree. Both Abrego and Younge are clear that if the security is needed ( i.e. , in this case, in the event of Ryan's untimely death), the recipient of the security may only recover amounts that had become due and were unpaid at the time of the obligor's death. Abrego , 1991 OK 48 accrued payments which remain unpaid at the time of the parent's death and attorney fees and costs.”
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.