Board v. Board’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 541 - In Re Marriage of Henry (1993), In Re Marriage of Cowan (1996)
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 57 Ala. App. 230 - Binns v. Maddox · Mask v. Mask · Potts v. Potts · 420 So. 2d 1072 - Mooneyham v. Mooneyham · Hamilton v. Hamilton
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prevailing view of most jurisdictions in the United States [is] that government benefits in the form of social security for child support may be credited against the parent's liability under the decree or agreement of settlement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Allowance of uncredited Social Security would actually modify the agreement of the parties and result in an unnecessary advantage.”
1 later decision 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.