Thompson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 678 So. 2d 174 - Glover v. Glover (1996), Lackey v. Lackey (2009)
48 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 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss · Griggs v. Griggs · 589 So. 2d 1303 - Phillippi v. State Ex Rel. Burke · 589 So. 2d 740 - White v. White · 587 So. 2d 1006 - Lewis v. Winslow
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We next address whether the trial court erred in not finding the father in arrears in regard to his child support obligation. "`Although child support payments are final judgments as of the date they accrue, we have allowed offsets to be made in instances where a child lived with the father at the time of accrual and the father was able to prove that he made contributions to the child's support.' Lewis v. Winslow , 587 So.2d 1006 , 1008 (Ala.Civ.App. 1991) (citations omitted). `The award or denial of a credit against an arrearage is within the sound discretion of the trial court.' Phillippi v. State ex rel. Burke , 589 So.2d 1303 , 1304 (Ala.Civ.App. 1991) (citation omitted). "The father testified that the parties' son lived with him from August 15, 1990, until February 1993, and that during that time he did not pay child support. The father further testified, and it is uncontroverted, that while the son lived with him he provided the son with food, shelter, clothing, transportation and fuel and other things related to transportation, and that during that time the mother did not provide anything for the son's support. "Based on the foregoing, we hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in not finding the father in arrears in regard to his child support obligation."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an award of an attorney fee in a domestic relations case is within the sound discretion of the trial court and, absent an abuse of that discretion, its ruling on that question will not be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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