Longo v. Goodwin’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. “that the party who may be adversely affected by a change in the child support amount be put on notice that the amount may change and that the change may be retroactive to the date of notice.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ames v. Ames · Petersen v. Van Overbeke

2. “Apparently Longo views the statute [19-A M.R.S.A. § 2009(2) (1998)] as allowing a party upon whom a motion for child support modification is served to ask that any modification be retroactive. The statute, however, only allows a moving party to ask for retroactivity.”

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

3. “[c]hild support orders may be modified retroactively but only from the date that notice of a petition for modification has been served upon the opposing party, pursuant to the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure.”

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