Mask v. Mask’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 341 Pa. Super. 512 - Children & Youth Services of Allegheny County v. Chorgo (1985), 156 Ill. 2d 541 - In Re Marriage of Henry (1993)
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Andler v. Andler · 57 Ala. App. 230 - Binns v. Maddox · Corliss v. Corliss · 49 Ohio App. 2d 223 - Fuller v. Fuller · Headley v. Headley
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the windfall comes, equitably it should inure not to the defaulting husband's benefit, but to his bereft children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kirwan v. Kirwan · Seeger v. Lanham“in effect, ordering the children to pay the accrued arrearages for their own support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plaintiff argues that allowing the defendant credit toward his support obligation for the social security payments is a modification of a vested and accrued obligation. Generally a court cannot retroactively modify a support order that has accrued and become vested. Gomez v. Gomez, 92 N.M. 310 , 587 P.2d 963 (1978). However, proceeding and so equitable principles are applicable. Corliss v. Corliss, 89 N.M. 235 , 549 P.2d 1070 (1976). Also, in a proceeding for the enforcement of a support order, any valid defense against payment may be raised. Headley v. Headley, 277 Ala. 464 , 172 So.2d 29 (1964), including the defense of payment from some other source, Binns v. Maddox, 57 Ala.App. 230 , 327 So.2d 726 (1976). We affirm the trial court in holding that the defendant may receive a credit against his support obligation, but only up to the amount of that obligation ($50.00), for each month after the child began receiving the benefits. It would be inequitable to rule otherwise, as stated in Andler v. Andler, 217 Kan. 538 , 538 P.2d 649, 654 (1975): [W]here the father who has been ordered to make child support payments becomes totally and permanently disabled, and unconditional Social Security payments for the benefit of the minor children are paid to the divorced mother, the father is entitled to credit for such payments by the government against his liability for child support under the divorce decree. The father is entitled to credit, however, only up to the extent of his obligat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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