Patch v. Patch’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Bunn v. House (1997), Flannery v. Flannery (1997)
30 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 O'Link v. O'Link · Burrell v. Burrell · Houger v. Houger · Ebert v. Ebert · Curley v. Curley
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(tlhe change ordinarily must be more or less permanent rather than temporary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arndt v. Arndt · Hill v. Bloom“[A] trial court should be reluctant to modify child support obligations when the obli-gor's loss of income appears only temporary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not believe that an obligor-parent should be 'locked in' to a particular job or field”
2 later decisions 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.