Acker v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the instant situation appellant had not paid child support for approximately three years which was almost the entire time the parties had been divorced. During most of this time appellant clearly had the ability to pay support. Despite his own non-compliance appellant filed a motion to hold his former wife in contempt for her alleged failure to allow child visitation. On the day of the hearing on his motion for contempt, the husband, at long last, tendered a $25.00 payment toward future child support. The husband's conduct was both willful and intentional and clearly detrimental to the welfare of the infant child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 W. Va. 602 - Ledsome v. Ledsome

2. “a willful and intentional refusal to pay child support which is detrimental to the welfare of the child”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Olson v. Olson