Schabauer v. Schabauer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Alimony and child support must be considered separately, and [husband’s] parental responsibility to provide for the maintenance of his children on the basis of the factors applicable to setting child support should not have been interwoven with his marital obligation to provide a suitable allowance for [wife’s] support.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. Clark

2. “(1) the length of the marriage; (2) each party’s earning capacity; (3) their financial conditions after the property division; (4) each party’s age, health, and physical condition; (5) their station in life or social standing; and (6) the relative fault in the termination of the marriage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Urbaniak v. Urbaniak