Commonwealth ex rel. Gitman v. Gitman’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Stoner v. Stoner (1972), 366 Pa. Super. 19 - DeMasi v. DeMasi (1987)
70 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 Crane v. CRANE · 193 Pa. Super. 179 - Commonwealth ex rel. Marvin v. Marvin · 172 Pa. Super. 30 - Commonwealth v. Mooney · 127 Pa. Super. 98 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Betz v. Betz
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the husband-father can afford for himself a caviar-champagne standard of living, it is not justice, nor legal, that the wife should be content with a tent and bread-and-butter menu for herself and brood.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the standard of living to which a family becomes accustomed that governs the calculation of a proper support order, consistent, of course, always, with the husband-father's income and assets. Commonwealth ex rel. Gitman v. Gitman, 428 Pa. 387, 397 , 237 A.2d 181 (1967) (spouse and child support).”
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.