Dixon v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
January 2014
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berish v. Berish · Johnson v. Johnson · Stevenson v. Stevenson · 58 Md. App. 386 - Sharp v. Sharp · Donahue v. Donahue
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the obligor spouse has the ability to earn more income than he is in fact earning, the court may impute income according to what he could earn by using his or her best efforts to gain employment equal to his capabilities, and an award of [support] based on such imputation may be a proper exercise of discretion even if it exhausts the obligor spouse’s actual income.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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