Buckner v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
14 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 Woolridge v. Woolridge · State v. Neighbors
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the “relevant factors” specified as justifying deviations from the presumptive amount [of child support determined under Form 14] is “the financial resources and needs of the parents.” Rule 88.01(b). The financial needs of a parent may include the need to expend funds included in “gross income” in order to maintain employment. Where a parent rebuts the presumptive child support amount by presenting credible evidence that a significant portion of “gross income” is spent on reasonable and necessary employment-related expenses, the trial court has discretion to deviate from the presumed child support amount after making a written or specific finding on the record that the Form 14 amounts are unjust or inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.