Gress v. Gress’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State Ex Rel. Z. P. v. Porter (2000), Henderson v. Henderson (2002)
2 district · 34 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 Mask v. Mask · 341 Pa. Super. 512 - Children & Youth Services of Allegheny County v. Chorgo · Doe v. Zedek · In Re Marriage of Cowan · POPPLE BY POPPLE v. Rose
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Child support payments become a vested right of the payee in a dissolution action as they accrue. . . . While a past-due child support arrearage is already accrued and vested, a future payment is not.... A court may, therefore, modify the amount of child support due in the future but may not forgive or modify past-due child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equitable considerations lead us to allow excess Social Security dependency benefits to be credited against child support arrearage * which has accrued from the date of the occurrence which entitled the parent to such benefits, unless the allowance of such credit, in the particular case, would be inequitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Scott
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.