Epperson v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2025
21 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 United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Bata Shoe Co. · O'Neill Investigations, Inc. v. Illinois Employers Insurance of Wausau · Deivert v. Oseira · Patch v. Patch
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the record presented, it is clear that the court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that the 'gifts' [the husband] made to [the wife] could not be credited against his child support obligation. [The husband] does not claim that he and [the wife} agreed that his contributions were to constitute prepayment of future child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruppe v. Ruppe“failed to set forth specific facts substantiating his bare claim,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Limeres v. Limeres
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.