Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
November 2009
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Emmons v. Emmons · Spabile v. Hunt · Grant v. Grant · Marshall v. Marshall · Condosta v. Condosta
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court must find from the evidence that the defendant not only refused to pay but also that he was under a present duty to pay and had the ability to make the ordered payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayo v. Mayo
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.