Iliff v. Iliff’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
60 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Worford v. Stamper · City of Rockwall v. Hughes · Yarborough v. Yarborough
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have no right to engraft upon the statute any conditions or provisions not placed there by the legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Texas Family Code section 154.066 contains no requirement of proof that an obligor be intentionally unemployed or underemployed for the purposes of avoiding child support. Where a trial court determines that an obligor is intentionally unemployed or underemployed, it is in the court’s discretion to set child support based on earning potential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not to second-guess the policy choices that inform our statutes or to weigh the effectiveness of their results” but to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.