Larson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2023
21 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 In re J. P. · 394 Pa. Super. 30 - Zummo v. Zummo · West Valley City v. Majestic Investment Co. · Felton v. Felton · Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o recover costs and attorney fees in proceedings on a petition to modify a divorce decree, the requesting party must demonstrate his or her need for attorney fees, the ability of the other spouse to pay, and the reasonableness of the fees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he court's obligation is to evaluate whether a particular change in circumstances justifies upsetting the status quo in order to achieve what is in the best interests of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a child's preference concerning custody decisions is not binding on the court and must be weighed according to the age and maturity of the child expressing the preference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. K.P.S. v. E.J.P.
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.