Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Ordinarily a disabled parent should be credited for social security dependency payments only to the extent of his child support obligation during the period such benefits are paid. This will usually cover the period of disability. But in an exceptional case like the present one where a child support arrearage occurred because of a lapse of time between the occurrence of the disability and the commencement of benefit payments, any excess of payments over obligation during the benefit period may fairly be credited against that arrearage. Such credit does not unreasonably vary the decree or divert the social security benefits from their purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gress v. Gress

2. “Social Security disability payments represent money which an employee has earned during his employment and also that which his employer has paid for his benefit into a common trust fund under the Social Security Act. 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. These payments are for the purpose of replacing income lost because of the employee's inability to work upon becoming disabled. Thus, these payments substitute as income.”

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

3. “As to the remainder of any surplus, it must be considered as a gratuity and not allowed to offset any arrearage for support which accrued prior to the disability. Such an amount constitutes an existing legitimate debt which should never have accrued and for which no credit can now be given ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seeger v. Lanham