Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schofield v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Costello v. LeNoir (1975), 195 Pa. Super. 104 - Irizarry Appeal (1961)
52 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 May v. Anderson · People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Children's Aid Society v. Gard · Commonwealth v. Daven · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Graham v. Graham
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been wisely said that ‘Such questions are among the most difficult which a judge is called upon to determine. Often no decision is possible without wounding the sensibilities of those who, after they have developed a deep affection for the child over the period of years, are called upon to surrender the child’: Commonwealth ex rel. Children’s Aid Society v. Gard, 162 Pa. Superior Ct. 415 , 58 A.2d 73 . The governing criterion is the welfare and interest of the children involved. ‘To this the rights of the parents and all other considerations are subordinated, and each case must be reviewed in relation to the happiness, training, development and morals of the infant’: Hixon’s Appeal, 145 Pa. Superior Ct. 33 , 20 A.2d 295 . See also Commonwealth ex rel. Cooper v. Cooper, 167 Pa. Superior Ct. 492 , 75 A.2d 609 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.