Conley v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2013
17 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 Orr v. Orr · Kenyon v. Brightwell · Livsey v. Livsey · Stone v. Stone · Evans v. Caldwell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clear that where, as here, the divorce decree does, at the very least, address a question concerning the liability of the non-custodial parent for child-support-obligation items, a § 19-6-19 modification action is the custodial parent’s exclusive remedy in regard to supplementing the decree with a provision obligating the non-custodial parent to pay additional child support. [Id. at 70.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Foster
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.