Akins v. Mofield’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Taylor v. Taylor (2007), Ward v. Doss (2005)
32 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 Ford v. Ford · McWhorter v. McWhorter · Bean v. Office of Child Support Enforcement · McCall v. McCall · Smith v. Smith
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the court must consider the chart, it does not have to use the chart amount if the circumstances of the parties indicate another amount would be more appropriate.... [T]he court may grant more or less support if the evidence shows that the needs of the child require a different level of support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Szwedo v. Cyrus · Gilbow v. Travis
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.