Proctor v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2017
22 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Ohler v. Ohler · 378 Pa. Super. 613 - Leasure v. Leasure · In Re the Marriage of Vetternack · Maughan v. Maughan · 53 Or. App. 539 - In Matter of Marriage of Edmonds
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[his] inability to provide for his children from an income, instead of from his only asset, is a direct consequence of his own misconduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a result of punishment for an intentional criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“retains the ability to earn and the duty to support.”
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.