Duffus v. Duffus’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2022
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Thomas v. Arn · United States v. Walters · Park Motor Mart, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · United States v. Schronce · McCarthy v. Manson
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.
“an obvious mistake has been made which creates a high likelihood that injustice has resulted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule against retroactive modification ... only prohibits modifying 'arrearage' already due under a 'final child support award' in existence when a motion to modify is filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A modification which is effective on or after the date that a motion for modification ... is served on the opposing party is not considered a retroactive modification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horne v. Touhakis
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.