Townsend v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
July 2016
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on I'On, L.L.C. v. Town of Mt. Pleasant · Kelley v. Kelley · Mitchell v. Mitchell · Calvert v. Calvert · Sharps v. Sharps
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.
“Where the amount of child support is based on a settlement agreement, the party requesting modification has an even heavier burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Miles
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.