Lanahan v. Nevius’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 17 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There can be no doubt that the law in this jurisdiction allows and indeed encourages the use of separation agreements to settle the financial affairs of spouses who are not able to maintain a harmonious marriage relationship. Judicial economy is advanced by such agreements, the court not having to expend its time doing for the parties what they presumably are better able to do for themselves, that is, determine what disposition of property and provision for support is fair and reasonable. Those agreements will be enforced “[i]n the absence of fraud, duress, concealment, or overreaching....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Webster v. Hope (In Re Hope)

2. “Thus while a court may find that a child support agreement does not provide a sufficient amount of money to meet a party’s legal obligation to support and may order a larger sum to be paid ... it may not modify such an agreement by reducing the agreed upon amount to the minimum the law would impose in the absence of an agreement, or to any sum different from that provided for in the agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duffy v. Duffy

3. “a court may find that a child support agreement does not provide a sufficient amount of money to meet a party's legal obligation to support and may order a larger sum to be paid, Blumenthal v. Blumenthal [D.C.Mun.App., 155 A.2d 525, 526-27 (1959)] . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alves v. Alves