King v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably 314 Pa. Super. 391 - In Re Damon B. (1983), 300 Pa. Super. 11 - Samuels v. Hendricks (1982)
33 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 Sherwood v. Elgart · Kramer v. Pittsburgh Coal Co. · Hollander v. Friedman · 163 Pa. Super. 352 - Tudesco Et Ux. v. Wilson · Barth v. Gorson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e agree that the best interest standard is inappropriate. This error, however, does not necessarily require that we reverse the order reducing visitation, since we may affirm an order for reasons other than those given by the trial court.”
2 later decisions 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.