Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2017
6 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 Weeks v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · Carter v. Rector
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Payments on a promissory note consist of a return of principal and the interest on that principal. The return of the principal is not “income,” and therefore cannot be included in the combined “gross income” of both parents. The interest on a promissory note is income, and should be included when computing the combined gross income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marcovitz v. Rogers
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.