Skinner v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2015
16 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 Daniel v. Daniel · Meredith v. Meredith · 147 Ga. App. 387 - Farmer v. Farmer · Herrington v. Herrington · Butterworth v. Butterworth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile we recognized [in Daniel ] that a father is not entitled to modify the terms of the decree without the sanction of the court, we also recognized that this rule is inequitable in some situations where the father in fact has provided child support. Thus, credit for the father's voluntary expenditures consented to by the mother as alternatives to child support, or excusal for nonpayment of support obligations where the mother has requested that the father have custody of the children and he supported them during such period, may be appropriate so that the father is not required to pay child support twice when there is no resulting unfairness to the mother or children. In Daniel , however, it was stressed that such an equitable ruling required an "unusual combination of facts[.]"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“also involved situations where the father had paid child support or its equivalent and the mother was seeking to require the father to pay child support again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the father had in fact provided child support and failure to allow him credit for such support would require double payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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