337 Pa. Super. 440 - Roach v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2012
15 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 229 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Roviello v. Roviello · 258 Pa. Super. 388 - Commonwealth v. Turner · 246 Pa. Super. 536 - Hellman v. Hellman · 283 Pa. Super. 397 - Morley v. Morley · 196 Pa. Super. 320 - Commonwealth ex rel. McCuff v. McCuff
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the obligation of support continues until it is shown that the conduct of the dependent spouse provides a ground for divorce. Morley v. Morley, 283 Pa.Super. 297 [397], 424 A.2d 524 (1981); Hellman v. Hellman, 246 Pa.Super. 536 , 371 A.2d 964 (1977). Moreover, the conduct claimed to nullify the obligation must be proven with clear and convincing evidence. Commonwealth v. Turner, 258 Pa.Super. 388 , 392 A.2d 848 (1978); Commonwealth ex rel. Roviello v. Roviello, 229 Pa.Super. 428 , 323 A.2d 766 (1974); Commonwealth ex rel. McCuff v. McCuff 196 Pa.Super. 320, 322 , 175 A.2d 124, 125 (1961) (`Proof of guilt must be clear and satisfactory')”
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.