Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Kelley v. Kelley (2005), Morales v. Morales (2013)
26 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 Schuler v. Schuler · Avery v. Steele · Ross v. Ross · Keller v. O'Brien · Heins v. Ledis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should take into account the earlier, expressed desires of the parties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“noncustodial parent's very substantial income ... permits him ... to enjoy a highly elevated standard of living ... the dispute focuses on what constitutes a reasonable award”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNamara v. McNamara“circumstances ... falling far outside of the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines,”
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.