Bell v. Gilliam’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2010
11 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 Murphy v. Carron · Ibrahim v. Ibrahim · Campbell v. Campbell · Marriage of Zavadil v. Zavadil · Rothfuss v. Whalen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenge is directed only to mother's failure to satisfy her burden to show a substantial and continuing change of circumstances so as to authorize the modification”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he provisions of any decree respecting maintenance or support may be modified only upon a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms unreasonable. In a proceeding for modification of any child support award, the court, in determining financial resources of both parties, including the extent to which the reasonable expenses of either party are, or should be, shared by a spouse or other person with whom he or she cohabits, and the earning capacity of a party who is not employed. If the application of the guidelines and criteria set forth in supreme court rule 88.01 to the financial circumstances of the parties would result in a change of child support from the existing amount by twenty percent of more, then a prima facie showing has been made of a change of circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the present terms unreasonable. Section 452.370.1 RSMo Cum. Supp.1992.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Brooks“It is sufficient in a particular case to rebut the presumption that the amount of child support calculated pursuant to Civil Procedure Form No. 14 is correct if the court or administrative agency enters in the case a written finding or a specific finding on the record that the amount so calculated, after consideration of all relevant factors, is unjust or inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glenn v. Francis
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.