Antonelli v. Antonelli’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 23 Va. App. 690 - O'Loughlin v. O'Loughlin (1996), Pope v. Pope (1997)
92 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 Edwards v. Lowry · Antonelli v. Antonelli
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the father who was under court order to pay a certain sum for child support, which he was able to pay given his employment, chose to pursue other employment, albeit a bona fide and reasonable business undertaking, the risk of his success at his new job was upon the father, and not upon the children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here, as here, the father seeks a reduction in the amount of payments for the support and maintenance of his minor children because of a change in his financial condition, he must make a full and clear disclosure relating to this ability to pay. He must also show that his lack of ability to pay is not due to his own voluntary act or because of his neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e will award the mother ... attorney’s fees in this Court, and we will remand the case to the Court of Appeals directing it to fix a sum on account of attorney’s fees for the mother in that court. We will also direct the Court of Appeals to remand the case to the circuit court for reconsideration of ... the mother’s request for attorney’s fees there____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.