Hill v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The declaratory judgment in this case permits Husband to nullify, as a practical matter, a court’s determination that an increase in the amount of child support is in the children’s best interest. When the parties entered into the Agreement, their children were ages two and four. Under Husband’s argument, the amounts of child support, once fixed in the Agreement, could not change for the more than fifteen years that its provisions would govern the child-support payments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fryman v. Fryman