145 Md. App. 76 - Jackson v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the [I]ncome [SJhares [MJodel, the child is entitled to a standard of living that corresponds to the economic posi tion of the parents. The child of a millionaire ought to have a lifestyle of advantage.... * * * We see no sound public policy in adopting a system of calculating child support in an above guidelines case that rewards a child whose parents were married, but denies equal advantages and economic opportunities to a child whose parents were not married.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 149 Md. App. 1 - Smith v. Freeman

2. “a child should receive the same proportion of parental income, and thereby enjoy the same standard of living, he or she would have experienced had the child’s parents remained together. Accordingly, the model establishes child support obligations based on estimates of the percentage of income that the parents in an intact household typically spend on their children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reichert v. Hornbeck