Matson v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
15 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 Johnson County Rural Electric Membership Corp. v. Burnell · 176 Ind. App. 211 - Haycraft v. Haycraft · Simon v. City of Auburn, Board of Zoning Appeals · Champion Home Builders Co. v. Potts
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“child support payments cannot be applied prospectively to support not yet due at the time of overpayment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flowers v. Flowers · Brown v. Brown“appearing at first sight ... or on the face of the argument.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If non-court approved prepayments, such as those which [Father] suggests, 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.”
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.