96 Mich. App. 621 - Rutledge v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2012
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A voluntary reduction in income, if made in bad faith or with willful disregard for the interests of the dependent child will not warrant a modification of support payments. Absent bad faith or such a willful disregard, however, the fact that defendant’s reduction in income was voluntary is not an adequate reason for refusing modification. An individual should be allowed to make good faith changes in his employment and his child should share in the financial inconvenience or hardship, just as the child would if the family had remained together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.