Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Cheriton v. Fraser (2001), Maturo v. Maturo (2010)
67 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Rock v. Cabral · Berish v. Berish · Marker v. Grimm · Pauly v. Pauly
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The party seeking to rebut the basic child support schedule has the burden of presenting evidence which demonstrates that the calculated award is unjust or inappropriate and would not be in the best interest of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Babe v. Babe · Myers v. Brewer“is rebuttably presumed to be the correct amount of child support due.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nonrecurring or unsustainable income or cash flow item”
2 later decisions 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.