Echele v. Echele’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Mistler v. Mistler (1991), Leahy v. Leahy (1993)
57 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 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Hughes v. Hughes · 178 W. Va. 563 - Cross v. Cross · Kieffer v. Kieffer · Colabianchi v. Colabianchi
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"1. ‘Cost’ shall include tuition, fees, books, dormitory costs for room and board. It does not include room and board while residing with either parent. 2. The one-half costs [Jack] is to pay shall be one half of the actual cost to the child, i.e., if child receives a scholarship or other aid which reduces cost, the cost does not include the amount of such scholarship or aid. For this purpose, loans to the student shall not be considered a scholarship or other aid. 3. The child must carry at least a minimum number of twelve credit hours each semester not including the summercsemes-ter. 4. The maximum cost which [Jack] shall be responsible for in any given school year will be one half of the then cost for tuition, fees, books, and dormitory costs for room and board at the University of Missouri at Columbia, regardless of what institution the child attends. 5.[Jack] shall not be responsible for paying one-half of the costs for more than eight semesters at a college or university.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) if a dissolution or modification decree is uncertain or indefinite in the sense that it lacks pristine specificity and (a) a settlement agreement is incorporated in the decree which can make the decree certain by motion and hearing to determine the exact amounts due, or (2) the decree itself can be made certain by a motion and hearing to determine the exact amounts due by ministerial computation or evidence, the decree, upon being reduced to certainty, is sufficiently certain and definite so as to be enforceable .... However, if the decree is so amorphous, indefinite, vague and uncertain that it requires a subsequent hearing to determine its meaning and which involves discretion, the decree is void and unenforceable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the event either or both parties’ minor children choose to attend a private college or university, then [husband] shall be responsible for one-third the cost of tuition, books and dormitory fees (room and board) of said college or university. [Husband’s] payments ... shall be made ... to the school, college or university where the child or children are attending....”
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.