Turinsky v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Child support awards should be based on a custody and visitation order. If the parties do not follow the custody order, they should ask the court to enforce the custody order or should move to modify the child support order. ... [The trial court erred to the extent it based its calculation of support arrearages on the visitation exercised, rather than the visitation ordered.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morino v. Swayman · Swaney v. Granger

2. “(3)Divided Custody. Parents have divided custody under this rule if one parent has sole or primary physical custody of one or more children of the relationship and the other parent has sole or primary custody of one or more other children of the relationship.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bunn v. House · Tillmon v. Tillmon

3. “a hybrid situation . neither Civil Rule 90.3(a) nor Civil Rule 90.3(b) would exclusively determine the support required for all the children. In such a situation, a trial court should, subject to Rule 90.3(c), rely on both Rule 90.3(a) and Rule 90.3(b) to calculate child support.... The second step in deter-raining divided custody support is for the court to carefully consider whether the support amount should be varied under paragraph (c)(1)(8).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fernau v. Rowdon