Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2020
10 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 Davis v. Vance · Marriage of Lambert v. Lambert · Clark v. Clark · Holsapple v. Herron · Cole v. Moore
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen released, most obligated parents face the twin barriers of large arrearag-es and difficulty finding employment. Such a situation makes it more likely that the newly-released obligated parent will face jail time as a result of nonpayment of child support or participate in the underground economy — once again straining family relationships, if not jeopardizing public safety. Lambert recognized the realities of incarceration for families, and is equally applicable to modifications of child support orders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in determining support orders, courts should not impute potential income to an imprisoned parent based on pre-incarceration wages or other employment-related income, but should rather calculate support based on the actual income and assets available to the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culbertson v. State
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.