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263 Pa. Super. 85 - Oswald v. Oswald’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 1991
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 253 Pa. Super. 538 - Jack v. Jack · 242 Pa. Super. 356 - Wechsler v. Wechsler · 242 Pa. Super. 170 - Wiegand v. Wiegand · 156 Pa. Super. 136 - Commonwealth v. Scholl · Belsky v. Belsky

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.

  1. ““A trial court possesses a wide range of discretion in the fixing of the amount of an award, and an appellate court will not interfere except in cases of manifest abuse of discretion.” (citations omitted)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. ““In case of divorce from the bonds of matrimony . the court may, upon petition, in proper cases, allow a spouse reasonable alimony pendente lite and reasonable counsel fees and expenses . . . ””
    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.