Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1994
22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Elkind v. Byck · 66 Wash. 2d 780 - Davidson v. Davidson · Miller v. Higgins · Meyers v. Smith · 191 So. 2d 528 - Howard v. Howard
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A duty of support `imposable by law' is one arising out of a relationship a duty of support to be adjudicated and reduced to decretal form in the responding state upon proper evidence at a hearing after due notice to the defendant, through the instrumentality of this new, additional remedy afforded by [URESA]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoyle v. Wilson“[n]o order of support issued by a court of this state when acting as a responding state shall supersede any other order of support but the amounts for a particular period paid pursuant to either order shall be credited against amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the court of the responding state can diminish the financial obligation it must have the corresponding power to increase it, for it is a poor rule that does not work both ways.”
1 later decision 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.