Lewis v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) The cost of health insurance; (b) The cost of child care; (c) Any special educational needs of the child; (d) The age of the child; (e) The responsibility of the parents for the support of others; (f) The value of services contributed by either parent; (g) Any public assistance paid to support the child; (h) Any expenses reasonably related to the mother’s pregnancy and confinement; (i) The cost of transportation of the child to and from visitation if the custodial parent moved with the child from the jurisdiction of the court which ordered the support and the noncustodial parent remained; (j) The amount of time the child spends with each parent; (k) Any other necessary expenses for the benefit of the child; and (l) The relative income of both parents.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Westgate v. Westgate

2. “Child support is not calculated as a supplement to the presumably inadequate means of the custodial parent. ÑRS 125B.070 specifies a parent’s duty of child support according to the parent’s means rather than according to the child’s needs. Although the ultimate policy objective may be the welfare of the child, the legislative scheme implements this policy by focusing the court’s attention upon a parent’s statutory duty to provide a fixed percentage of his income as support.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Love v. Love