Gomez v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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. Klineline v. Blackhurst · Russell v. Protective Insurance · Johnson v. Francke · Blake v. Blake · Cockrell v. Cockrell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) establish as state policy an adequate standard of support for children, subject to the ability of parents to pay; (2) make awards more equitable by ensuring more consistent treatment of persons in similar circumstances; and (3) improve the efficiency of the court process by promoting settlements and giving courts and the parties guidance in establishing levels of awards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Erickson v. Erickson
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.