Ready v. Ready’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2025
24 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 Vaughn v. State · Martinez v. State · Reavis v. Reavis · Mentock v. Mentock · Carlton v. Carlton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This policy manifests a balance between the doctrine of finality of judgments which is supported by the doctrine of res judica-ta and the statutes providing for modification of the provisions of a decree relating to child eustody, support, and alimony. The trial court is charged with resolving that tension, and it must do so in the exercise of discretion."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) "Income" means any form of payment or return in money or in kind to an individual, regardless of source. Income includes, but is not limited to wages, earnings, salary, commission, compensation as an independent contractor, temporary total disability, permanent partial disability and permanent total disability worker's compensation payments, unemployment compensation, disability, annuity and retirement benefits, and any other payments made by any payor, but shall not include any earnings derived from overtime work unless the court, after considering all overtime earnings derived in the preceding twenty-four (24) month period, determines the overtime earnings can reasonably be expected to continue on a consistent basis. In determining income, all reasonable unreimbursed legitimate business expenses shall be deducted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[iJn neither Houston nor Watson, however, did we state a per se prohibition ... on the use of federal tax information as evidence in determining "income" and "net income" under the Wyoming child support statutes. In fact, in all child support proceedings, the parties are required to submit to the court financial affidavits with supporting documentation that includes copies of their most recent tax returns.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.