Kaplan v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Connolly v. Connolly (1983), Kaplan v. Kaplan (1982)
85 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 Scherr v. Scherr · Koizim v. Koizim · Hardisty v. Hardisty · Jacobsen v. Jacobsen · Viglione v. Viglione
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon a showing that the party receiving the periodic alimony is living with another person under circumstances which the court finds should result in the modification, suspension, reduction or termination of alimony because the living arrangements cause such a change of circumstances as to alter the financial needs of that party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“chose the broader language of "living with another person' rather than `cohabitation' . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A final order for child support may be modified by the trial court upon a showing of a substantial change in the circumstances of either party. . . . The party seeking modification bears the burden of showing the existence of a substantial change in the circumstances.”
2 later decisions 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.