Favrow v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Maturo v. Maturo (2010), Favrow v. Vargas (1994)
52 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 666 (§ 466 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 467 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Turner v. Turner · 84 Century Ltd. Partnership v. Board of Tax Review · Mercado v. Commissioner of Income Maintenance
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially [circumscribe] the traditionally broad judicial discretion of the court in matters of child support.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he ... guidelines shall be considered in all determinations of child support amounts within the state and ... the guidelines consist of the Schedule of Basic Child Support Obligations as well as the principles and procedures set forth [therein].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is nothing in [the statute's] language or in the important public policy that it reflects, to suggest that the obligation of a parent to support [his or her] child, according to [his or her] ability, is subject to a condition precedent of a formal demand. That obligation is ongoing, and does not require the trigger of a request by those persons who are shouldering that responsibility.”
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.