Gabel v. Gabel’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2013
16 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 Lapp v. Lapp · Byron v. Gerring Industries, Inc. · Alumni Ass'n of University v. Hart Agency, Inc. · Corbin v. Corbin · Burrell v. Burrell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have stated that the ability to pay [child] support is not necessarily determined solely on the basis of income earned. The court must consider a party’s net worth, including the extent of his physical assets and his earning ability as demonstrated by past income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schatke v. Schatke
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.