child support
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 496 U.S. 478 - Sullivan v. Stroop · 1990Most cited · 802 citing opinions
legally compulsory payments made by parents.
How often courts cite the case defining “child support”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “child support” — 796 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.