Nix v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2018
12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 667 (§ 467 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cox v. Cox · Malekos v. Chloe Ann Yin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no parental agreement regarding child support is valid until it receives judicial scrutiny under Rule 90.3.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[AJgreements to waive child support are not valid until a court has reviewed and approved the waiver’s substantive adequacy under Rule 90.3, and even a court-approved waiver will be given only prospective effect.... Under this court's precedent, [the former spouse's] alleged waiver thus cannot relieve [the obligor] from his obligation to make his past due child support payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paxton v. Gavlak“a court is `not required to find that good cause existed merely because the parties had reached an agreement.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughlin v. Laughlin
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.