378 Pa. Super. 613 - Leasure v. Leasure’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Mooney v. Brennan (1993), 70 Ohio App. 3d 188 - Cole v. Cole (1990)
71 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Ohler v. Ohler · In Re the Marriage of Vetternack · 53 Or. App. 539 - In Matter of Marriage of Edmonds · Bell v. Bell · Foster v. Foster
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“barring an incarcerated and indigent parent from seeking a modification provides no present benefit to the child. Imposing upon the incarcerated parent a continuing support obligation, beyond his ability to pay, does not help the child. Rather it simply adds to an accumulating burden which falls upon the parent when he is least able to bear it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mncar-ceration is usually an involuntary situation. While it may be possible to envision a parent avoiding child support by going to prison, we find it highly unlikely in the instant case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. Lambert“unless that parent possesses another asset from which funds could be generated.”
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.