166 Mich. App. 58 - Lorenz v. Lorenz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder (1989), 77 Md. App. 750 - Wassif v. Wassif (1989)
49 state decisions — followed in 17 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 152
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for a determination by the trial court of the impact of the new IRS custodial parent rule, 26 U.S.C. § 152 (e), on the ability of plaintiff to pay the current rate of child support and whether or not the impact of this change in the federal tax law should be reflected by a consequent modification of the amount of child support required to be paid by plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“divested state courts of jurisdiction over which party could take the exemptions.”
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.