Costello v. LeNoir

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[E]very parent has a duty to support his or her minor children ... in accordance with the parents’ respective abilities to pay____”
• \[E]very parent has a duty to support his or her minor children . . . in accordance with the parents' respective abilities to pay . . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Melzer v. Witsberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 193×
• Bowser v. Blom
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-25· cited 111×
• Sutliff v. Sutliff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-09· cited 104×
• Blue v. Blue
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-13· cited 86×
• Ball v. Minnick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-24· cited 69×
• Griffin v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-29· cited 49×
• Labar v. Labar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-08· cited 41×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hagerty v. Eyster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 40×
• Yerkes v. Yerkes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 37×
• Butler v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-21· cited 36×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wasiolek v. Wasiolek
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 36×
• Zullo v. Zullo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 36×
• Shutter v. Reilly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 33×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Scanlon v. Scanlon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Vogelsong
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 30×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Mainzer v. Audi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-18· cited 21×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Caswell v. Caswell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-26· cited 20×
• Lampa v. Lampa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-29· cited 19×
• Edelstein v. Edelstein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-26· cited 19×
• Jenkins v. Jenkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 19×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conway v. Dana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-26· cited 177×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schofield v. Schofield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-07-14· cited 55×
• Lindenfelser v. Lindenfelser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-07-02· cited 54×
• Bell v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 35×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Marvin v. Marvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-09-16· cited 17×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Goodman v. Delara
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-09-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Scarpato v. Scarpato
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-06-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Baylinson v. Baylinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Steacker v. Steacker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-13· cited 2×