Farish v. Farish’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2011
19 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 Worford v. Stamper · Simon v. York Crane & Rigging Co., Inc. · Holley v. Holley · MacCallum v. MacCallum · In the Interest Pecht
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the court may modify an order that provides for the support of a child if: (1) the circumstances of the child or a person affected by the order have materially and substantially changed since the date of the order's rendition; or (2) it has been three years since the order was rendered or last modified and the monthly amount of the child support award under the order differs by either 20 percent or $100 from the amount that would be awarded in accordance with the child support guidelines.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the circumstances of the child or a person affected by the order have materially and substantially changed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PCS“decline in his net resources, his remarriage, another child, and private school tuition increases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PCS
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.