Pascale v. Pascale’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Bornemann v. Bornemann (1998), Davidson v. Davidson (1998)
115 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 Lepis v. Lepis · Rothman v. Rothman · Painter v. Painter · 42 Cal. 3d 531 - Burchard v. Garay · Beck v. Beck
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the nature of the asset is one that is the result of efforts put forth `during the marriage' by the spouses jointly, making it subject to equitable distribution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Needs of the child; (2) Standard of living and economic circumstances of each parent; (3) All sources of income and assets of each parent; (4) Earning ability of each parent, including educational background, training employment skills, work experience, custodial responsibility for children including the cost of providing child care and the length of time and cost of each parent to obtain training or experience for appropriate employment; (5) Need and capacity of the child for education, including higher education; (6) Age and health of the child and each parent; (7) Income, assets and earning ability of the child; (8) Responsibility of the parents for the court-ordered support of others; (9) Reasonable debts and liabilities of child and parent; and (10) Any other factors the court may deem relevant. [N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23(a).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]hildren are entitled to be supported at least according to the standard of living to which they had grown accustomed prior to the separation of their parents,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.