Bellis v. Bellis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2010
9 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 Kieffer v. Kieffer · Burchett v. Burchett · Plattner v. Plattner · Harrod v. State · In Re the Marriage of Engelhardt
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, once there is a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms of the existing order unreasonable, the parent's increased income or enhanced wealth becomes a relevant factor in judging his ability to provide greater support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an increase in the income of a parent obliged to pay child support is not, by itself, a sufficient reason to increase the award.”
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.