Carroll v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. [T]he health of the husband and his earning capacity; 2. [T]he health of the wife and her earning capacity; 3. [T]he entire sources of income and expenses of both parties; 4. [T]he reasonable needs of the wife; 5. [T]he reasonable needs of the child; 6. [T]he necessary living expenses of the husband; 7. [T]he estimated amount of income taxes the respective parties must pay on their incomes; 8. [T]he fact that the wife has the free use of the home, furnishings and automobile; 9. [T]he length of the marriage; 10. [T]he presence or absence of minor children in the home; 11. [T]he standard of living of the parties, both during the marriage and at the time of the support determination; 12. [Fjault or misconduct; 13. [Wasteful dissipation of assets; 14. [T]he obligations and assets of each party; 15. [T]he age of the parties; 16. [T]he tax consequences of the spousal support order; and 17. [S]uch other facts and circumstances bearing on the subject that might be shown by the evidence.”

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