Young v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Ogard v. Ogard (1991), Williams v. Budke (1980)
25 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 United States Trust Co. v. Zelle · Central Railroad v. Director, Division of Tax Appeals of the Department of the Treasury · Moore v. State · Concerned Citizens of South Kenai Peninsula v. Kenai Peninsula Borough · Kephart v. Kephart
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our overall conclusion is that the superi- or court has not erred in failing to grant Young the $800.00 credit. The majority position is that payments voluntarily made to the children are not to be credited against child support obligations. The rationale is that such voluntary payments to the children quite often are intended for particular purposes whereas the manner in which child support payments are used to meet the children’s basic needs is left to the discretion of the parent or guardian with custody.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a defendant husband is required by a divorce decree to pay to the plaintiff money for the support of the children and the unpaid and accrued installments become judgments in favor of the plaintiff, he cannot, as a matter of law, claim credit on account of payments voluntarily made directly to the children....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ogard v. Ogard“Action upon judgment or sealed instrument in 10 years. No person may bring an action upon a judgment or decree of a court of the United States, or of a state or territory within the United States, and no action may be brought upon a sealed instrument unless commenced within 10 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robbins v. Robbins
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.