Drake v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2018
5 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is familiar law that a contract entered into between two parties may be enforced by a third party if the contracting parties intended the contract for the third party's direct benefit.... It is not enough that the contract benefit the third party incidentally; the agreement must express an intent to assume a duty directly to the third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have no doubt that circumstances may arise, such as death or disability, or outright refusal of a contracting parent to seek enforcement of periodic support provisions for a child, which would give a child the necessary standing to enforce the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morelli v. Morelli
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.