342 Pa. Super. 178 - Pacella v. Pacella’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 366 Pa. Super. 19 - DeMasi v. DeMasi (1987), 357 Pa. Super. 339 - Morschhauser v. Morschhauser (1986)
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 Stambaugh v. Stambaugh · 310 Pa. Super. 23 - Remick v. Remick · 316 Pa. Super. 282 - Ruth v. Ruth · 200 Pa. Super. 401 - Commonwealth ex rel. Gutzeit v. Gutzeit · 202 Pa. Super. 573 - Commonwealth v. Miller
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“See e.g., Commonwealth ex rel. Maier v. Maier, 274 Pa.Super. 580 , 418 A.2d 558 (1980) (where supporting spouse is sole stockholder of corporation and determines his own salary, court may pierce corporate veil and use corporate income as basis for determining earning capacity); Commonwealth v. Miller, 202 Pa.Super. 573 , 198 A.2d 373 (1964) (where supporting spouse is self-employed, net income, as it appears on income tax forms, is not “infallible” measure of real wealth; court accordingly may add back portion of depreciation deduction in calcu lating amount of support owed); Commonwealth ex rel. Gutzeit v. Gutzeit, 200 Pa.Super. 401 , 189 A.2d 324 (1963) (in determining supporting spouse’s earning capacity, court should consider not only salary paid by wholly owned corporation, but all prerequisites [sic] provided by corporation.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grant or withhold alimony according to the actual need and ability to pay of [] the parties. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“effectuate economic justice between [the] parties[.]”
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.