Mandel v. Mandel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the financial resources of both parents, the standard of living the child would have enjoyed if the marriage had not been dissolved, the financial resources of the child, ... the cost of the school, the programs offered at the school, the child's scholastic aptitude, how the school meets the child's goals, and the benefits the child will receive from attending the school”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 230 - Feinstein v. Feinstein

2. “Although a merged provision 'does not survive the judgment as a binding contract, we nevertheless will "review the [judge's] findings [and rulings] to determine whether the judge gave appropriate consideration to the parties' intentions as expressed in their written agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 101 Mass. App. Ct. 673 - LISA M. JONES v. ANDREW D. JONES (and a consolidated case ).

3. “a party who has sat on his or her right to intervene, or to seek approval from the court when the parties disagree, until the college selection process has been completed, may have waived his or her right to object to the college and its concomitant cost”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 230 - Feinstein v. Feinstein