Morisch v. Morisch’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Ohler v. Ohler (1985), Huffman v. Huffman (1990)
32 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 Chamberlin v. Chamberlin · Helgenberger v. Helgenberger · Sholl v. Sholl
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a change in the financial resources or ability to pay on the part of the parent obligated to pay support, needs of the child or children for whom support is paid, good or bad faith motive of the obligated parent in sustaining a reduction of income, and the duration of the change, namely, whether the change is temporary or permanent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Graber v. Graber · Wilson v. Wilson
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.