Thrash v. Thrash’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2019
24 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 Petersen v. Petersen · Mayhue v. Mayhue · Hough v. Hough · Greeson v. Greeson · Vanderslice v. Vanderslice
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equitable defenses may be invoked to bar the recovery of delinquent child support payments”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appeal reviewing child support is one of equitable cognizance. This Court will review the whole record, weigh the evidence and affirm the judgment only where the judgment rendered is just and equitable. If the judgment is not just and equitable, this Court will render or cause to be rendered a proper judgment. (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torres v. Torres“McNeal allowed a modification based upon the equitable consideration that the former husband, who had been ordered to pay child support for two children, ceased making those payments when the children moved in with him.”
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.