Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Ramin v. Ramin (2007), Loughlin v. Loughlin (2006)
53 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 Borkowski v. Borkowski · Tobey v. Tobey · Smith v. Smith · Collette v. Collette · Febbroriello v. Febbroriello
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court expressly and affirmatively state[s] that it relied on gross income in determining the defendant's support obligation, the trial court abuse[s] its discretion because it applied the wrong legal standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that a court must base child support and alimony orders on the available net income of the parties, not gross income.”
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.