Abbott v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2020
17 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 Gibbons v. Gibbons · Thielenhaus v. Thielenhaus · Finger v. Finger
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[mJost expenses borne by the custodial parent for the maintenance of the child remain fixed and constant for that parent even though the child is visiting with the other parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]onsiderable disparity in the respective incomes and net worths of the parties . . . is one of the factors that may be taken into account.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. THOMPSON v. THOMPSON“the child will [not] be placed at risk of specific and real harm by reason of living with the custodial parent in the new location.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hart v. Bertsch
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.