352 Pa. Super. 241 - Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
22 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 311 Pa. Super. 495 - Millstein v. Millstein · 347 Pa. Super. 289 - Hollman v. Hollman · 326 Pa. Super. 359 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Tokach v. Tokach · 284 Pa. Super. 430 - Prescott v. Prescott · 333 Pa. Super. 54 - Koller v. Koller
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he role of an appellate court in reviewing alimony orders is limited; we review only to determine whether there has been an error of law or abuse of discretion by the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n abuse . . . does not necessarily imply a willful abuse, but if, in reaching a conclusion, the law is overridden or misapplied or the judgment exercised is manifestly unreasonable as shown by the evidence or the record, discretion is then abused and it is the duty of the appellate court to correct the error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“changed financial circumstances of the appellant brought about by voluntary retirement”
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.