99 Conn. App. 829 - Elia v. Elia’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 113 Conn. App. 122 - Pellow v. Pellow (2009), 101 Conn. App. 739 - Lusa v. Grunberg (2007)
31 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 Russell v. Russell · Favrow v. Vargas · Chyung v. Chyung · 86 Conn. App. 665 - Chyung v. Chi Han Chyung · State v. Fagan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is true that the court generally increases the actual earned income of a party when it considers that party's earning capacity, there is no statutory provision or case law that precludes a court from decreasing that income under appropriate circumstances.... [Our] case law is clear that earning capacity is the amount that a person can realistically be expected to earn ....”
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.