Forhan v. Forhan’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
19 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 Foster v. Foster · Sifers v. Sifers · Markham v. Markham · Van Luvan v. Van Luvan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. While the mother in Forhan asserted there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court's finding that the decline in the husband's income was involuntary and continuing, the father admitted that the needs of the children had increased. Id. Accordingly, the court noted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinhart v. Reinhart“[t]he party seeking modification has a heavy burden of proving he is unable to support his children in the manner contemplated at the time the separation agreement was incorporated into the dissolution decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinhart v. Reinhart“[t]he question presented is whether husband's allegation and proof of a decrease in his income was a sufficient change in circumstances to warrant modification of child support payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinhart v. Reinhart
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.