Kovacs v. Kovacs’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Letz v. Turbomeca Engine Corp. (1998), Ansevics v. Cashaw (1994)
27 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 Mistler v. Mistler · Doerflinger v. Doerflinger · Vehlewald v. Vehlewald · Beckman v. Beckman · Wilhoit v. Fite
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`devoted a majority of her life to the household and maternal tasks, thereby, forfeiting the opportunity to develop occupational skills,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all relevant factors including the financial resources of both parties” when ordering reasonable attorney fees. In 1998, the following factors were added:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.