Ward v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Taylor v. Taylor (2007), McMickle v. Griffin (2008)
90 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 McElroy v. Grisham · McWhorter v. McWhorter · Barclay v. First Paris Holding Co. · Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Mabry · Martin v. State
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic rule of statutory constmction is to give effect to the intent of the legislature. Ward v. Doss, 361 Ark. 153 , 205 S.W.3d 767 (2005); Arkansas Tobacco Control Bd. v. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc., 360 Ark. 32 , 199 S.W.3d 656 (2004). Where the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous, we determine legislative intent from the ordinary meaning of the language used. Id. In considering the meaning of a statute, we construe it just as it reads, giving the words their ordinary and usually accepted meaning in common language. Id. We construe the statute so that no word is left void, superfluous or insignificant, and we give meaning and effect to every word in the statute, if possible. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Shelby’s obligation to pay child support for [the oldest child] expired by operation of law on September 11, 2002, when [she] turned eighteen years old and had graduated from high school. However, Shelby’s duty to provide child support for [the other two children] remained. We must reverse and remand this issue for the circuit court to recalculate child support due under the then-applicable Family Support Chart [for those two children] as of [the oldest child’s] eighteenth birthday on September 11, 2002, taking into account Shelby’s income as of that date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillison v. Gillison“(a)(1) Unless a court order for child support specifically extends child support after these circumstances, an obligor's duty to pay child support for a child shall automatically terminate by operation of law: (A) When the child reaches eighteen (18) years of age, unless the child is still attending high school; (B) If the child is still attending high school, upon the child's high school graduation or the end of the school year after the child reaches nineteen (19) years of age, whichever is earlier.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warner v. Warner
How this case has been treated — in progress
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