Morris v. Henry

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that state-support statute, in conjunction with other statutes, gave court authority to address matters of support when one party dies
• statute authorizing award of child support as court deems expedient permits court to decree that support of minor children shall survive death of obligor parent
• statute interpreted liberally to effectuate plain intention of legislature, which was to empower courts of equity to protect rights sad interests of infant defendants, as there was no express or implied statutory inhibition against the right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kujawinski v. Kujawinski
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-05-26· cited 177×
• Judd v. Van Horn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-05-03· cited 60×
• Grotsky v. Grotsky
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1971-05-24· cited 49×
• L.W.K. v. E.R.C.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-09-14· cited 30×
• Kiken v. Kiken
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-06-12· cited 27×
• DeMott v. DeMott
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-04-23· cited 22×
• Foster v. Foster
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-09-10· cited 21×
• Bailey v. Bailey
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1970-06-18· cited 18×
• Knowles v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-04-04· cited 8×
• Benson Ex Rel. Patterson v. Patterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-13· cited 5×
• Estate of Brown
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 3×
• Nkopchieu v. Minlend
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-20· cited 2×
• Griffin v. Sprouse
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-30· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gloth v. Gloth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-06-12· cited 87×
• Gardine v. Cottey
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1950-05-08· cited 84×
• Barry v. Sparks
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-05-28· cited 52×
• Stone v. Bayley
  Washington Supreme Court· 1913-08-29· cited 46×
• Miller v. Miller
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1874-07-01· cited 37×
• Ring v. Ring
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-06-10· cited 29×
• Buchanan v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-01-08· cited 26×
• Kern v. Lindsey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-06-22· cited 26×
• Carey v. Carey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1931-12-05· cited 25×
• Rice v. Andrews
  New York Supreme Court· 1926-08-02· cited 22×
• Eaton v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-11-14· cited 10×
• Heninger v. Heninger
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1893-11-09· cited 8×
• Bailey v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-01-09· cited 8×