Bright v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2015
4 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 State Ex Rel. Webster v. Lehndorff Geneva, Inc. · Nix v. Nix · Towery v. Towery · McDermott v. Carnahan · Trailiner Corp. v. Director of Revenue
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless the circumstances of the child manifestly dictate otherwise and the court specifically so provides, the obligation of a parent to make child support payments shall terminate when the child: (1) Dies; (2) Marries; (3) Enters active duty in the military; (4) Becomes self-supporting, provided that the custodial parent has relinquished the child from parental control by express or implied consent; (5) Reaches age eighteen, unless the provisions of subsection ⅛ or 5 of this section apply; or (6) Reaches age twenty-two, unless the provisions of the child support order specifically extend the parental support order past the child’s twenty-second birthday for reasons provided by subsection 4 of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kreutzer v. Kreutzer“must give effect to [the] statute as written.”
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.