Bell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Kanaan v. Kanaan (1995), Kohut v. Kohut (1995)
31 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 White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Klein v. Klein · Richard v. Richard · In Re Robinson/Keir Partnership · Quesnel v. Quesnel
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven an `automatic' cost-of-living award may not be effectuated in the absence of an increase in the payor's income, and the award must incorporate some mechanism for handling this circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur“provide for situations in which the payor's income does not keep pace with inflationary increases in the cost of living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur“inflation with relation to the cost of living”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur
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.