Straight v. Straight’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) A tribunal of this state issuing a support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a child support order: (1) as long as this state remains the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or (2) until each individual party has filed written consent with the tribunal of this state for a tribunal of another state to modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Brantingham v. Grate

2. “By adopting these uniform acts, the legislature has created an unsatisfactory situation in which a suit affecting a parent-child relationship is severed into parallel proceedings in different states. However, any remedy for this awkward result must come from the legislature, not the courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Koerner v. Koerner

3. “UIFSA is predicated on a one-order system where only one state's [spousal support] order governs at any time, and, unless the first state has lost jurisdiction, no other state may modify the order.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watson v. Watson, Unpublished Decision (2-2-2007)