Williams v. Budke’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably In Re the Marriage of Carlson (1984), Dixon v. Dixon (1987)
54 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 In Re the Marriage of Brown · Porter v. Porter · State Ex Rel. Lay v. District Court, Fourth Judicial District · 151 Cal. App. 2d 237 - Scarlett v. Scarlett · 61 Wash. 2d 6 - Ovens v. Ovens
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... decree may be modified by a court as to maintenance or support only as to installments accruing subsequent to actual notice to the parties of the motion for modification.” (Emphasis added — “to actual notice to the parties” has been added since 1975 and remains in the 1993 version).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Two Montana decisions have addressed the issue of whether a parent upon whom a child support obligation rests should be granted credit for voluntary expenditures made in a manner other than that specified in the support order or dissolution decree. Haaby v. Haaby (1974), 165 Mont. 475 , 529 P.2d 1387 ; Weber v. Weber (1978), [176] Mont.[144], 576 P.2d 1102 , 35 St.Rep. 309 . However, after examining the case law of this and other jurisdictions we have found the basic question addressed by the courts is whether there has been substantial compliance, in whole or in part, with the child support order. Was the spirit and purpose of the support order accomplished without violating any other provision of the dissolution decree? We believe this is the correct approach to the issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The District Court always has jurisdiction in contempt proceedings for the purpose of enforcing a support money decree, to find the defaulting party in contempt, and to stay the execution of punishment for the contempt upon the provisio that the defaulting party purge himself by making payments in accordance with a schedule established by the District Court. Williams, 186 Mont. at 78 , 606 P.2d at 519 ; State v. District Court (1948), 122 Mont. 61, 72-6 , 198 P.2d 761, 767-69 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.