Linrud v. Linrud’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Dronen v. Dronen (2009), Zuger v. Zuger (1997)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 Nicholas Acoustics & Specialty Co. v. H & M Construction Co. · Heley v. Heley · Van Oosting v. Van Oosting · W.J.M. v. J.B. · State v. Ash
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person legally responsible for the support of a child under the age of eighteen years who is not subject to any subsisting court order for the support of the child and who fails to provide support, subsistence, education, or other necessary care for the child, regardless of whether the child is not or was not in destitute circumstances, is liable for the reasonable value of physical and custodial care or support which has been furnished to the child by any person, institution, agency, or county social service board. Any payment of public assistance money made to or for the benefit of any dependent child creates a presumption that such payment equals the reasonable value of physical and custodial care or support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagel v. Hagel“are presumptively correct, and the complaining party bears the burden of demonstrating on appeal that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not call for a windfall for one spouse.”
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.