Davis v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 state decisions

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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.

1. “Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-27-342(d) (Repl. 1998) provides: (d) Upon an adjudication by the court that the putative father is the father of the juvenile, the court shall follow the same guidelines, procedures, and requirements as established by the laws of this state applicable to child support orders and judgments entered upon divorce. The court may award court costs and attorney’s fees. Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-10-109(a) (Supp. 2001) provides in pertinent part: subsequent to a finding by the court that the putative father in a paternity action is the father of the child, the court shall follow the same guidelines, procedures, and requirements as set forth in the laws of this state applicable to child support orders and judgments entered by the chancery court as if it were a case involving a child born of a marriage in awarding custody, visitation, setting amounts of support, costs, and attorney’s fees.... haArk. Code Ann. § 9-10-109 (Supp. 2001). Thus, [the] procedure applicable to child support orders entered upon divorce applies to a motion on attorney’s fees in a paternity action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doughty v. Douglas