Wilson v. Stenwall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Social Security benefits are analogous to private insurance, where a parent insures against his ability to fulfill moral and legal obligations due his minor children. The payments to a minor child are a direct result of the earnings and payments of the parent through his prior employment.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker v. Baker · Artrip v. Noe

2. “[t]he cases which have held to [disallow a credit] have generally done so, not because they rejected, as a matter of law, the principal that Social Security benefits are allowable as a credit, but for other reasons, such as to permit a credit would retroactively modify the decree granting child support, or would cause an inequitable result when considering other factors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Child Support Enforcement Agency v. Doe

3. “[m]other [to] directly benefit by the fruits of [f]ather's labor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Artrip v. Noe