1999 Pa. Super. 27 - Strayer v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Trojak · C.T.D. v. N.E.E. · 439 Pa. Super. 58 - CTD v. Nee · Martin v. Martin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“DNA paternity testing, with its pinpoint accuracy, has posed more squarely than ever before a dilemma in paternity testing. Before the advent of DNA testing, the determination of paternity could not be as accurately established as it can today. Because the truth can be so reliably revealed, the policy question as to whether to expose the truth or whether to bypass the truth for some important family or societal reasons has taken on added meaning. While we recognize that the right to paternity testing is not absolute and there may be strong family or societal reasons to deny paternity testing, such testing should be fa vored.... The establishment of a parent-child relationship is important to both parent and child. A father and his child have the right to establish a kinship relationship and the child has a right to expect both financial and emotional support from his or her father. Furthermore, a child’s biological history may be essential to his or her future health, and the child’s cultural history may be important to his or her personal well being.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here... a man comes forward within months of the child’s birth and attempts to establish his paternity so that he will be able to engage in a full paternal relationship with the child, and where the facts do not give rise to any coun tervailing presumption of paternity or to a claim of estoppel, blood testing should be ordered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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