Commonwealth ex rel. Mathis v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1991
12 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 185 Pa. Super. 167 - Commonwealth ex rel. Kraus v. Kraus · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schofield v. Schofield · Commonwealth ex rel. Balick v. Balick · 115 Pa. Super. 181 - Com. Ex Rel. Mark v. Mark · 159 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Rubertucci v. Rubertucci
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily reliance by the court on reports of court investigators concerning the condition of the parties’ respective homes constitutes reversible error: Commonwealth v. Rubertucci, 159 Pa.Super.Ct. 511 , 49 A.2d 269 (1946). See also Commonwealth ex rel. Mark v. Mark, 115 Pa.Super. 181 , 175 A. 289 (1934); Commonwealth ex rel. Balick v. Balick, 172 Pa.Super. 196 , 92 A.2d 703 (1952).”
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.