Wilson v. Hermanson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The general rule is that a child has a fundamental right to be supported by his or her parents until he or she reaches the age of majority and that if the parents are divorced, the courts have the jurisdiction to require the non-custodial parent to pay a certain amount of child support and to modify the amount of child support required of the non-custodial parent until the child reaches the age of majority."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nelson v. Maddox

2. “financial resources of the parents and the child and the child's commitment to, and aptitude for, the requested education.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 717 So. 2d 373 - Beavers v. Beavers