Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2015
19 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 89 Wash. 2d 592 - Childers v. Childers · 176 Ind. App. 211 - Haycraft v. Haycraft · Whitman v. Whitman · 132 Ind. App. 99 - Draime v. Draime · Brokaw v. Brokaw
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is that overpayments cannot be applied prospectively to support not due at the time of the overpayment. [A]ny excess payment made [has] to be considered a gratuity or at least a voluntary contribution for the support of the children, and not a prepayment of future support obligations. If non-court approved prepayments, such as those [here] were to be permitted, it would be possible for a parent, who is obligated to pay support, to build up a substantial credit, then suddenly refuse to make support payments for several weeks, months, or even years, thus thwarting the court's purpose in setting the payments at certain specified intervals, that of providing regular, uninterrupted income for the benefit of that parent's children, who are in the custody of another. The regularity and continuity of court decreed support payments are as important as the overall dollar amount of those payments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Tlhe court may order either parent or both parents to pay any amount reasonable for support of a child, without regard to marital misconduct after considering all relevant factors including: La La * # # # (3) physical or mental condition of the child and his educational needs; L * * LJ * # (b) Such child support order may also include, where appropriate: (1) sums for the child's education in elementary and secondary schools and at institutions of higher learning, taking into account the child's aptitude and ability and the ability of the parent or parents to meet these expenses; * La * * La La (d) The duty to support a child under this chapter ceases when the child reaches his twenty-first birthday unless: (1) the child is emancipated prior to his twenty-first birthday in which case the child support, except for the educational needs outlined in subsection (b)(1), terminates at the time of emancipation; however, an order for educational needs may continue in effect until further order of the court;"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Altwies v. Altwies
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.