Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(tlhe general rule ... is that a disabled parent is entitled to have Social Security disability benefits paid to a child because of that parent's disability credited against the parent's child support obligations.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dedek v. Dedek · Orlich v. Orlich

2. “As in this case, the federal government sometimes takes years to make a decision, and this can lead to a retroactive award of benefits. Under such circumstances the party applying for federal benefits should petition the trial court for modification of a support order based on the apparent inability to work caused by the disability and alert the court to the pending application for benefits. The trial court could defer its ruling on the petition until the federal government decides whether to award the benefits. This would give the trial court the power to modify the support order retroactively to take into account all the changes in circumstance, while at the same time providing the custodial parent with notice that such a modification is a possibility.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hieston v. State, Indiana Family & Social Services Administration Child Support Bureau · Hieston v. INDIANA FAM. AND SOC. SERV.

3. “dictates the excess amount is properly treated as a gratuity to the children and no credit is granted.... This does not mean that the trial court cannot modify the child support obligation to reflect the Social Security disability benefits.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Orlich v. Orlich · Hieston v. INDIANA FAM. AND SOC. SERV.