Morrow v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis

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77 state decisions

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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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he total of all earned and unearned income from all sources during a calendar year, whether or not the income is taxable, and includes income from salaries, wages, overtime pay, and bonuses to the extent described in division (D) of section 3119.05 of the Revised Code ; commissions; royalties; tips; rents; dividends; severance pay; pensions; interest; trust income; annuities; social security benefits, including retirement, disability, and survivor benefits that are not means-tested[.] * * * "Gross income" * * * includes * * * self-generated income; and potential cash flow from any source.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morrow v. Becker · Abrams v. Abrams

2. “[t]he starting point for determining the proper amount of child support to be paid is parental income, defined as gross income for those employed to full capacity or gross income plus potential income for those not employed to full capacity.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Abrams v. Abrams · Habib v. Shikur

3. “gross receipts received by a parent from self-employment, proprietorship of a business, joint ownership of a partnership or closely held corporation, and rents minus ordinary and necessary expenses incurred by the parent in generating the gross receipts.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Serra v. Serra · Habib v. Shikur