Robinson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2015
12 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 Anderson v. Anderson · 652 So. 2d 432 - Hutslar v. Lappin · 575 So. 2d 291 - Gurene v. Gurene
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent with a support obligation may have other children living with him or her who were born or adopted after the subsequent obligation arose. The existence of such subsequent children should not as a general rule be considered by the court as a basis for disregarding the amount provided in the guidelines. The parent with a support obligation for subsequent children may raise the existence of such subsequent children as a justification for deviation from the guideline amount. However, if the existence of such subsequent children is raised, the income of the other parent of the subsequent child shall be considered by the court in determining whether or not there is a basis for deviation from the guideline amount. The issue of subsequent children may only be raised in a proceeding for upward modification of an existing award and may not be applied to justify a decrease in an existing award.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We feel, however, that we must give some meaning to the phrase `subsequent children should not as a general rule be considered,' when deviating from the guidelines. It would appear that there was a legislative recognition that parties should be aware of their support obligation to existing children, and should take that into account prior to assuming further obligation. We, therefore, hold that absent some special circumstance, the presence of a subsequent child will not justify a deviation from support guidelines. In the instant case, the judge did not refer to any special circumstance which would justify the deviation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.