Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2003
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where before the effective date of a statute changing the age of majority from nineteen (19) to eighteen (18) years a child support order specified 19 years as the age at which the divorced father's duty to make support payments would end, was the district court in error in terminating the duty of support at the new age of majority?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Brackin“§ 14-1-101. Age of majority; rights on emancipation. (a) Upon becoming eighteen (18) years of age, an individual reaches the age of majority and as an adult acquires all rights and responsibilities granted or imposed by statute or common law, except as otherwise provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Brackin
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.