360 Pa. Super. 16 - Lyday v. Lyday’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2010
19 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 Melzer v. Witsberger · Commonwealth ex rel. Gitman v. Gitman · 251 Pa. Super. 103 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. ReDavid v. ReDavid · 350 Pa. Super. 274 - Shindel v. Leedom · 266 Pa. Super. 276 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Platt v. Platt
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It] is well settled that we cannot disturb a lower court’s order of support absent a clear abuse of discretion or law. Commonwealth ex rel. Hagerty v. Eyster, 286 Pa.Super. 562 , 429 A.2d 665 (1981); Commonwealth ex rel. Vona v. Stickley, 287 Pa.Super. 296 , 430 A.2d 293 (1981). A finding of such abuse is not lightly made and must rest upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence. The lower court must be upheld on any valid ground. Straub v. Tyahla, 274 Pa.Super. 411 , 418 A.2d 472 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[q]uite naturally, the court should consider a parent’s income from whatever source; included in income should be monies received from the rental of real estate, but that “income” must reflect actual available financial resources and not the oft-time fictional financial picture which develops as the result of depreciation deductions taken against rental income as permitted by the federal income tax laws.”
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.