Evans v. Tillery’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Hall v. Hall (2013), Hill v. Kelly (2006)
54 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 · Myrick v. Myrick · City of Lowell v. M & N Mobile Home Park, Inc. · Kelly v. Kelly
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“improperly ignored (3) Medical insurance paid for dependent children; and (4) Presently paid support for other dependents by court order, regardless of the date of entry of the order or orders.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dare v. Frost · Morgan v. Morgan“intentionally broad and designed to encompass the widest range of sources consistent with this State's policy to interpret 'income' broadly for the benefit of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dare v. Frost · Morgan v. Morgan
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.