Booth v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1,254 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,254 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Rock v. Cabral (1993), Pauly v. Pauly (1997)
1,254 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Miller v. Miller · Cherry v. Cherry · Berish v. Berish · Wolfe v. Wolfe
Cited together with Blakemore v. Blakemore · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · Pauly v. Pauly · Marker v. Grimm · Miller v. Miller
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 1,254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unreasonable, arbitrary, or unconscionable.”
85 later decisions quote this exact passage“If we were to assume, arguendo, that the trial court had failed to consider the respective costs of living of the parties, it may have indeed been “unreasonable” for the court to ignore such economic realities and, thus, the child support order might have amounted to an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gladis v. Gladisova“Rather, a potentially equal division is merely the starting point of the trial court's analysis before it considers other factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gupta v. Sharan
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.