Renfro v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2017
19 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 Wanberg v. Wanberg · Kowalski v. Kowalski · Long v. Long · Schanck v. Schanck · Coghill v. Coghill
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining earning capacity for Rule 90.3 purposes, the court has discretion, on the evidence before it, to choose the best indicator of ... future earning capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although affording a credit under Rule 90.3(a)(3) is a discretionary decision, that fact does not reheve the superior court of its obligation to consider whether or not to grant a credit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. Pierce“if he can show that he is unable to earn the income level determined by the superior court and, thus, cannot meet his support obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Trihub
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.