Estrem v. Estrem’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2020
4 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 Murphy v. Carron · Elliott v. Elliott · Ewing v. State · Lewis v. Lewis · Kessinger v. Kessinger
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the trial court determined ... that [appellant] could afford to pay the entire child support amount, that determination [does] not relieve [respondent] of her obligation to support the children commensurate with her ability to pay. [Citations omitted.] The fact that one parent has the financial ability to provide for all the expenses of a child does not alleviate the other parent’s responsibility to support the child. [Citation omitted.] “Once it is determined that a parent has the ability to pay his or her percentage of the total child support obligation, that parent is not relieved of this obligation or responsibility simply because the other parent has the ability to pay the total child support obligation of the parents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Surface v. Surface
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.