Peterson v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Herbstman (1998), Harvey v. Christopher (2011)
38 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
Applies 37 U.S.C. § 402 · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Testan · United States v. King · McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · United States v. Yazell
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ertainly little would be accomplished, other than incurring additional delay and further expense, in remanding this case back to the trial court for the purpose of entering its findings of fact and conclusions of law again in concert with another judgment. Although we must insist upon compliance with the Rules of Civil Procedure, in this case no meaningful purpose would be furthered to remand this case back to the trial court for this purpose alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“payments under the Federal programs in which entitlement is based in employment .... [and] [t]herefore ....are proper sources of income that a state trial court can consider in determining whether there has been a financial change of circumstances sufficient to warrant an increase of child support payments.”
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.