2012 UT App 16 - Busche v. Busche’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. Friel · Hart v. Hart · State v. Barrett · Edwards v. Lowry · English v. English
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If income is imputed to a [spousel, the income shall be based upon employment potential and probable earnings as derived from employment opportunities, work history, occupation qualifications, and prevailing earnings for persons of similar backgrounds in the community, or the median earning for persons in the same occupation in the same geographical area as found in the statistics maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The imputation analysis ... involves determining whether the [spouse] is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed and, if so, how much income ought to be imputed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'voluntarily unemployed or underemployed when [he or she] intentionally chooses of his or her own free will to become unemployed or underemployed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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