Gonzalez v. Tippit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) [plead] as an affirmative defense in whole or in part to a motion for enforce ment of child support that the obligee voluntarily relinquished to the obligor actual possession and control of a child, (b) The voluntary relinquishment must have been for a time period in excess of any court-ordered periods of possession of and access to the child and actual support must have been supplied by the obligor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. in the Interest of W.J.B. and L.M.B. · Pedregon v. Sanchez

2. “In Texas, the Legislature has explicitly required that parental agreements concerning child support be expressly approved by the court based on whether the agreement is in the child’s best interest. Accordingly, agreements by parents to reduce or modify court-ordered child support obligations without such approval violate public policy and are unenforceable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Kubankin