Marchus v. Marchus’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2024
12 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 Buchholz v. Buchholz · Bertsch v. Bertsch · Koch v. Williams · Edwards v. Edwards · Geinert v. Geinert
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Brakke involved an agreement by both parents to change custody of their daughter for an extended period of time. [Brakke, at 688-89]. Following this change, the father requested retroactive relief from his child support payments under a prior judgment. Id. at 689 . We concluded Rule 60(b)(vi), N.D.R.Civ. P., could be applied to relieve the father from his child support obligations back to the date he became the child’s custodial parent. Id. at 690 . However, in retroactively invalidating Mr. Brakke’s support payments, we clearly stated this decision was not a retraction from our position that “vested support rights cannot be retroactively modified.” Id.”
1 later decision 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.