Schurmann v. Schurmann’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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.

1. “If the obligor fails, upon reasonable request made in any proceeding to review a child support obligation, to furnish reliable information concerning the obli-gor’s gross income from earnings, and if that information cannot be reasonably obtained from sources other than the obligor, income must be imputed based on the greatest of: a. Subdivisions a through c of subsection 3 [imputed income for obligor who is unemployed or underemployed]; or b. The obligor’s net income, at the time the child support order was entered or last modified, increased at the rate of ten percent per year.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allmon v. Allmon

2. “must be based on a preponderance of the evidence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhodenbaugh v. Rhodenbaugh