Edwards v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Antonelli v. Antonelli (1991), 15 Va. App. 696 - Barnhill v. Brooks (1993)
3 federal appellate · 66 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 Featherstone v. Brooks · Hammers v. Hammers · Carter v. Carter · Crosby v. Crosby · Carswell v. Masterson
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“child the consequences of his own wrongdoing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a footnote to Edwards , the Supreme Court said: We have not been called upon to decide, and do not now decide, the question presented by a voluntarily-incurred reduction of income for a purpose ultimately beneficial to the payee, such as a change to a new occupation offering brighter prospects in the long run, or education and training undertaken to qualify the payor to enter such a new career.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuing jurisdiction after a final decree of divorce has been entered, to modify its decree with respect to the ... maintenance of minor children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.