Selby v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial court erred in finding that there was a substantial change of a continuing nature with regard to the circumstances of the parties as to make the terms of the court's original child support order of $650.00 per month unreasonable because said finding was not based on substantial evidence in that the original child support order was not based on the Missouri Child Support Guidelines at the time it was entered in 2004 and therefore the presumption that a substantial and continuing change in circumstances exist if the presumed child support amount is different from the current amount by twenty percent or more is not applicable to the case at bar; there was no evidence that the current needs of the minor child are substantially different now than at the time the original child support order was entered in 2004; and there was evidence that Mother voluntarily reduced her income since the entry of the original dissolution decree.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bauer v. Angell · In Re Marriage of Angell

2. “is limited to determining whether the judgment is supported by substantial evidence, whether it is against the weight of the evidence, whether it erroneously declares the law or whether it erroneously applies the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reinhart v. Reinhart · In Re Marriage of Angell

3. “reversed only for abuse of discretion or misapplication of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reinhart v. Reinhart · In Re Marriage of Angell