70 Mich. App. 294 - Stanaway v. Stanaway’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
8
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]t abrogates the requirement for [a petition to modify] by allowing a continual [yearly] alteration of the judgment as to the amount of support ..." Second, and more important, it "focuses exclusively on the 'cireumstances' of the [paying parent] while ignoring the complex factors relating to the 'benefit of the children' and their changing or unchanging needs."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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