Vander Woude v. Vander Woude’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2015
16 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 Malcolm v. Malcolm · Sharp v. Sharp · Peterson v. Peterson · Kier v. Kier · Donohue v. Getman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement between parents or other responsible persons relieving a party of any duty of support or responsibility or purporting to settle past, present or future support obligations as settlement or prepayment may not act to reduce or terminate any rights of the department of social services or any support obligee to recover from parents or other responsible persons for support provided, unless the department or any support obli-gee has consented to the agreement in writing and the agreement has been approved by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“This court does not approve of personal modifications to divorce decrees absent court amendment or a binding agreement....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bess v. Bess“this court does not look favorably upon agreements to modify child support that have not received the court's approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.