Roya v. Roya’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2012
20 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 Field v. Field · Brevick v. Brevick · Romano v. Romano · Branstad v. Branstad · In Re the Marriage of Stamp
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An adequately clear order should set forth a simple and workable formula which can be used each year to determine what the change in the payments will be. The formula must provide for adjustments to be made in a manner which is based on readily obtainable information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur“Under 15 V.S.A. § 752(b)(7), the trial court must consider `inflation with relation to the cost of living' when fashioning a maintenance order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur“provide for situations in which the payor's income does not keep pace with inflationary increases in the cost of living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur
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.