Abel v. Tisdale’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Spencer v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. (2007), Wright Ex Rel. Wright v. Wright (2011)
1 district · 93 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 Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · In Re the Estate of Milliman · Cappel v. Adams · Brookshire v. Burkhart · Allen III v. United States
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To reverse a trial court on the ground of abuse of discretion it must be found that the trial judge made a clearly erroneous conclusion and judgment, against reason and evidence.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage““The record, while containing evidence of the fairness of the contracted fee and the amount of work done by the attorneys, is void of evidence upon which the trial court could base his fee reduction. While the trial court has the authority to reduce a child’s attorney fee, such reduction must be supported by evidence; it cannot be arbitrary and must be as a result of an adversary proceeding.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]resents, to the appellate reader of the transcript, a typical set of facts which might be brought out in a case such as this. This court can discern no discriminatory criteria used by the trial judge in making [his] decision. In the end, then, it cannot be said that the trial court abused its discretion in ruling that the child should take the name of [Father]." Id. at ¶7.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. REED v. REMMERT
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.