Watson-Wojewski v. Wojewski’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “his or her claimed expenses reflect the child's needs and standard of living.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. McKittrick v. McKittrick · Laird v. Laird

2. “The monthly net income of each parent shall be determined by the parent’s gross income less allowable deductions, as set forth herein. The monthly gross income of each parent includes amounts received from the following sources: (1) Compensation paid to an employee for personal services, whether sala ry, wages, commissions, bonus, or otherwise designated; (2) Self-employment income including gain, profit, or loss from a business, farm, or profession; ' (3) Periodic payments from pensions or retirement programs, including social security or veteran’s benefits, disability payments or insurance contracts; (4) Interest, dividends, rentals, royalties, or other gain derived from investment of capital assets; (5) Gain or loss from the sale, trade, or conversion of capital assets; (6) Unemployment insurance benefits; (7) Workers’ compensation benefits; and (8) Benefits in lieu of compensation including military pay allowances. If the income of the parents is derived from seasonal employment, or received in payments other than regular, recurring payments, such income shall be annualized to determine a monthly average income.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Roberts v. Roberts

3. “Gross income from a business, profession, farming, rentals, royalties, estates, trusts or other sources, are the net profits or gain, or net losses shown on any or all schedules filed as part of the parents' federal income tax returns....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Laird v. Laird