White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably 310 Pa. Super. 23 - Remick v. Remick (1983), 274 Pa. Super. 411 - Straub v. Tyahla (1980)
40 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 206 Pa. Super. 429 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ross v. Ross · 221 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hanerkam v. Hanerkam · 199 Pa. Super. 592 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Borrow v. Borrow · 213 Pa. Super. 515 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Young v. Young · Walbert v. Farina
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . a wife’s ‘earning capacity’ may be a material factor on arriving at a reasonable support order.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a wife is employable, the court should take into consideration the amount of time that a wife during her marriage has been out of work. If a wife has been a housewife during all or most of a marriage, relegating the “bread-winning” role to the husband, that is a relevant factor. Certainly, a woman who has been off of the “job market” for a considerable period of time may have a more difficult time in obtaining employment than a woman who possibly terminated her employment shortly before the support proceedings or after the separation. Employability, after all, means more than just the availability of work, the relative skills of the worker, the health and stamina of the worker, and the absence of children in the home for which the wife would have responsibility. A court should consider all of the above factors and measure those elements with the duration of the unemployment experienced by the wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Initially, we note that a wife’s “earning capacity” may be a material factor in arriving at a reasonable support order .... Where the children are of adult age and are no longer residing with the wife, or where no children are born of the marriage, an order of support which makes a husband fully responsible for the support of an employable wife is confiscatory. Where a wife’s dependency on her husband is voluntary, and not prompted by some justifiable reason such as poor health, a court should take her employability into consideration when fixing the order of support. Under these limited circumstances, ... a court may look to the earning capacity of a wife in determining the amount a husband must pay to support his wife.”
1 later decision 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.