Daniels v. Daniels’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2009
8 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 Sousley v. Sousley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he award borders on an abuse of discretion that will ripen as the children grow older. This is true especially in light of the father’s more comfortable life style and assuming he came into a substantial inheritance of $100,000 in January of 1986. These factors, as they occur, the children’s sharing a bedroom as they grow older, the father’s lifestyle and his inherited money, would constitute [sic] change of circumstance as to merit an increase in child support in the future. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Roberts“are presumed to be marital debts unless the presumption is rebutted.”
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.