In Re Laura’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “This presumption may be rebutted only through a 'written finding or a specific finding by the presiding officer on the record that the application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of Steven Hoyt and Lesley Hoyt

2. “The legislature adopted them in order to establish a uniform system to determine the amount of child support to be awarded, to resolve inequities in child support orders and to comply with federal law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of Steven Hoyt and Lesley Hoyt

3. “to ensure that both the custodial and non-custodial parents share in the support responsibility for their children, according to the relative percentage of each parent's income”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of Steven Hoyt and Lesley Hoyt