Wilcox v. Petit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An amount which represents a monthly support payment is simply the amount of the monthly support obligation (much as ‘an amount that represents a year’s salary’ means the amount that one earns in a year or ‘an amount that represents a monthly mortgage payment’ means the amount of the monthly mortgage obligation). The statute instructs that the first fifty dollars of such an amount, once collected by the government, be forwarded to the recipient family. Its use of the term ‘collected periodically’ is clearly intended to provide flexibility that would not be present if the term ‘collected monthly’ were used.” Wilcox, 653 F. Supp. at 710 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 165 Ill. App. 3d 624 - Humble v. Department of Public Aid · 676 F. Supp. 355 - Wilcox v. Ives

2. “monthly support payments” would have to mean the amount received in a month rather than the amount owed, and the word”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 676 F. Supp. 355 - Wilcox v. Ives · Wilcox v. Ives

3. “would have to be dropped from the statute and replaced with the word”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilcox v. Ives