Wills v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 109 Md. App. 1 - Wagner v. Wagner (1996), In Re the Marriage of Thurmond (1998)
78 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 Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California · Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc. v. Department of Employment & Training · Morris v. Prince George's County · Petrini v. Petrini · Carroll County Department of Social Services v. Edelmann
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(j) Potential income. — “Potential income” means income attributed to a parent determined by the parent’s employment potential and probable earnings level based on, but not limited to, recent work history, occupational qualifications, prevailing job opportunities, and earnings levels in the community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“As we see it, the phrase “due to leaving work voluntarily” ... has a plain, definite and sensible meaning, free of ambiguity; it expresses a clear legislative intent that to disqualify a claimant from benefits the evidence must establish that the claimant, by his or her own choice, intentionally, of his or her own free will, terminated the employment. If an employee is discharged for any reason, other than perhaps for the commission of an act which the employee knowingly intended to result in his discharge, it cannot be said that his or her unemployment was due to “leaving work voluntarily. ” ****** In this case the record does not establish that the claimant of her own volition and from her own choice undertook to terminate her services. Although it certainly cannot be challenged that her conduct precipitated her severance, based upon the factual findings that she contumaciously refused to prepare herself to perform the duties she had undertaken, the record clearly demonstrates that the employer was the party who elected to and did, in fact, terminate the relationship when she was discharged. She did not quit or otherwise “voluntarily” leave. In view of the plain meaning of the statutory language, and the clear intention of the Legislature, we cannot conclude, as a matter of law, upon the factual findings made by the referee, as adopted and affirmed by the Board, that the appellant’s unemployment was “due to [her] leaving work voluntarily, without good cause.” We hold-that t”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a parent is voluntarily impoverished, the question is whether a parent’s impoverishment is voluntary, not whether the parent has voluntarily avoided paying child support. The parent’s intention regarding support payments, therefore, is irrelevant. It is true that parents who impoverish themselves “with the intention of avoiding child support ... obligations” are voluntarily impoverished. John O., supra, 90 Md.App. at 421[, 601 A.2d 149 ]. But, as the court recognized in Goldberger [v. Goldberger ], 96 Md.App. [313,] 326-27[, 624 A.2d 1328 ] [ (1993) ], a parent who has become impoverished by choice is “voluntarily impoverished” regardless of the parent’s intent regarding his or her child support obligations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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