Gallagher v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2000
21 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 Gallo v. Gallo · Connolly v. Connolly · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Hardisty v. Hardisty · Marcil v. Marcil
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts rulings on this issue [evidence of past earning capacity and prior years income] " fall within its broad discretionary power to determine the relevancy or remoteness of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the husband shall provide college education for the children of the marriage, if he is financially able. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the event any question arises as to his financial ability, the court shall determine the same,”
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.