Commonwealth v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably 250 Pa. Super. 168 - Spells v. Spells (1977), 331 Pa. Super. 501 - In Re Adoption of Crystal D.R. (1984)
38 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 Young v. Hipple · Mallinger v. Mallinger · 174 Pa. Super. 292 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Heller v. Yellin · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bortz v. Norris · 197 Pa. Super. 271 - D'Auria v. Liposky
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an agreement is made under which one parent agrees to release the other from the duty of support, the bargain will be enforced so long as it is fair and reasonable, made without fraud and coercion, and without prejudice to the welfare of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he rights and liabilities arising out of the relation are, as the words imply, exactly the same as between parent and child.”
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.