Cantrell v. Cantrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “to pay child support in excess of the guidelines even if the trial court does not make a specific finding that such a deviation is warranted ... [b]ecause an increase in ordered child support does not negatively implicate a child's best interest in the obvious way that a decrease in child support would.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gore v. Grant

2. “complying with a provision of the guidelines or ordering an award amount resulting from use of the guidelines would be unjust, inappropriate, or not in the best interest of a child in a particular ease.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gore v. Grant

3. “A parent ... may at any time petition the court to adjust the amount of a child support order if there has been a substantial change in cireumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 278 - Hibbens v. Hibbens