Somme v. Sirmon’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1995
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dufau v. Creole Engineering, Inc. · Hogan v. Hogan · Ballanco v. Ballanco
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award for support shall not be reduced or increased unless the party seeking the reduction or increase shows a change in circumstances of one of the parties between the time of the previous award and the time of the motion for modification of the award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.