Mims v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 district · 16 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 467 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Allstate Insurance v. Hague · M. A. P. v. Ryan · Carducci v. Regan · Costello v. United States · Hercules & Co. v. Shama Restaurant Corp.
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.
“the primary purpose of the District’s child support legislation is to protect the rights of District of Columbia children, not to penalize District of Columbia fathers.... Indeed, the District of Columbia has no legitimate interest in ensuring that a father who lives in the District must pay more to support Maryland children than an otherwise similarly situated Maryland resident would be required to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.