Belsky v. Belsky’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 310 Pa. Super. 23 - Remick v. Remick (1983), Hutchison v. Hutchison (1980)
26 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 Kaufmann Estate · Heilbron v. Heilbron · 177 Pa. Super. 384 - Hanson v. Hanson · 156 Pa. Super. 136 - Commonwealth v. Scholl · 127 Pa. Super. 471 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. McClenen v. McClenen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case of divorce from the bonds of matrimony or bed and board, the court may, upon petition, in proper cases, allow a [spouse] reasonable alimony pendente lite and reasonable counsel fees and expenses.””
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.