Austin v. Towne’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Buchholz v. Buchholz (1999), Drummond v. State (1998)
30 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 Continental Casualty Co. v. Kinsey · Guthmiller v. Guthmiller · Ellingson v. Knudson · Lang v. Bank of North Dakota · Filler v. Bragg
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘To apply the credit to the arrearage which accrued prior to the obligor’s filing of the modification application would amount to a retroactive modification of vested support rights. This we will not do. The credit should be applied at the time of the filing, however, only if the benefits are being paid to the dependent child or the child’s representative payee.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A decision on a N.D.R.Civ.P. 59 motion is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“motion to alter or amend the judgment under N.D.R.Civ.P. 59(j) `for purposes of tolling the time period for filing [a] notice of appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paulson v. Bauske
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.