Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2025
9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 467 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Raymond v. Raymond · Ready v. Ready · Smith v. Smith · Sharpe v. Sharpe · Chancler v. Meredith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court may deviate from the presumptive child support established by W.S. 20-2-304 upon a specific finding that the application of the presumptive child support would be unjust or inappropriate in that particular case. In any case where the court has deviated from the presumptive child support, the reasons therefore shall be specifically set forth fully in the order or decree. In determining whether to deviate from the presumptive child support established by W.S. 20-2-804, the court shall consider the following factors[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Keck v. Jordan · Egan v. Egan“[The] guidelines are just that-guidelines, and do not accommodate to all cireumstances or cases.”
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.