Steffes v. Steffes’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2020
22 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 Sullivan v. Quist · Helbling v. Helbling · Rueckert v. Rueckert · Gruebele v. Gruebele · Mahoney v. Mahoney
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. A judgment or order requiring the payment of child support until the child attains majority continues as to the child until the end of the month during which the child is graduated from high school or attains the age of nineteen years, whichever occurs first, if: “a. The child is enrolled and attending high school and is eighteen years of age prior to the date the child is expected to be graduated; and “b. The child resides with the person to whom the duty of support is owed. “2. The person to whom the duty of support is owed shall file an affidavit with the district court stating that the requirements of subsection 1 are met.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hallock v. Mickels“‘Net income’ means total gross monthly income less: ... (e) Payments made on actual medical expenses of the child or children for whom support is being sought”); see also Perala v. Carlson, 520 N.W.2d 839, 841 (N.D.1994) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickson v. Dickson“The child support guidelines preclude an obligor from withholding an artificially high amount of taxes from gross income in an effort to reduce net income for purposes of calculating a child support obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mahoney v. Mahoney
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.