Barela v. Barela’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1998
18 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 Spingola v. Spingola · Fullen v. Fullen · Corliss v. Corliss · Westland Development Co. v. Saavedra · Snellings v. Snellings
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a custodial parent is financially able to support the children and the children refuse to visit their other parent due to the emotional influence of the custodial parent, the court in its discretion has the power to terminate future support obligations of the noncustodial parent. (Citations omitted and emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomez v. Gomez“Support obligations are for the benefit of the children and if the custodial parent does not have the financial ability to support the children, the support obligation should not be reduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brannock v. Brannock
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.