65 Md. App. 265 - Presley v. Presley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2016
20 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 Patterson v. United States · Bureau of Mines v. George's Creek Coal and Land Co. · Office & Professional Employees International Union, Local 2 v. Mass Transit Administration · Smith v. Smith · Borchert v. Borchert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The child need not be penniless, nor may he be profligate. The duty of support arises when the child has insufficient resources and, because of mental or physical infirmity, insufficient income capacity to enable him to meet his reasonable living expenses.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) In general. — The court may award to either party the costs and counsel fees that are just and proper under all the circumstances in any case in which a person: (1) applies for a decree or modification of a decree concerning the custody, support, or visitation of a child of the parties; or (2) files any form of proceeding: (i) to recover arrearages of child support; or (ii) to enforce a decree of child support. (b) Required, considerations. — Before a court may award costs and counsel fees under this section, the court shall consider: (1) the financial status of each party; (2) the needs of each party; and (3) whether there was substantial justification for bringing or defending the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorsey v. McClain“Pamela is not quite so independent as her living and working arrangements facially might suggest. Appellee [the mother] furnished her apartment and bought her a car; she has paid for Pamela’s unreimbursed medical expenses and has made up part of Pamela’s general monthly deficit. She has also provided substantial assistance to Pamela in terms of everyday activities — shopping, budgeting, attending to her clothes, etc. Most of this evidence was not really in dispute. Appellant’s position was not that Pamela didn’t have these expenses, but that they were unnecessary. He objected to Pamela’s having her own apartment and car, and in general thought her standard of living was too high.”
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.