Pauling v. Pauling’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2021
23 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 162 W. Va. 477 - In Re Estate of Hereford · Mentock v. Mentock · 390 Pa. Super. 509 - D'Huy v. D'Huy · Hinckley v. Hinckley · Manners v. Manners
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) A court may deviate from the presumptive child support established by W.S. 20-6-304 upon a specific finding that the application of the presumptive child support would be unjust or inappropriate in that particular ease. * * * In determining whether to deviate from the presumptive child support established by W.S. 20-6-304, the court shall consider the following factors: ****** (xdii) Other factors deemed relevant by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith · Sharpe v. Sharpe“... If, upon applying the presumptive child support to the circumstances of the parents or child at the time of review, the court finds that the support amount would change by twenty percent (20%) or more per month from the amount of the existing order, the court shall consider there to be a change in circumstances sufficient to justify the modification of the support order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCulloh v. Drake · Smith v. Smith“[A] twenty percent change in support constitutes a sufficient change in circumstances to modify an order; it does not mean that a court is obligated to modify the support order to conform to the guidelines. The guidelines are still only “re-buttably presumed to be the correct amount of child support to be awarded in any proceeding to ... modify ... child support amounts.” Section 20-6-302(a). The court may deviate from the presumptively correct support level created by the guidelines when application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate. To determine whether a particular level would be unjust or inappropriate, the court may consider a comprehensive list of factors enumerated in § 20-6-302(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCulloh v. Drake
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