Welch v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mercer v. Vanderbilt University, Inc. · O'DANIEL v. Messier · Berryhill v. Rhodes · Toney v. Mueller Co. · 276 Pa. Super. 433 - COM., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. Woolf
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Children are not property and are not disposable as a matter of convenience. This truth is foundational to the statutory child support, custody, and adoption scheme developed by our legislature and applied by our courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Cardenas
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.