2002 Pa. Super. 72 - Hamilton v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Estoppel is based on the public policy that children should be secure in knowing who their parents are. If a certain person has acted as the parent and bonded with the child, the child should not be required to suffer the potentially damaging trauma that may come from being told that the father he has known all his life is not in fact his father.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Pa. Super. 172 - J.C. v. J.S. · Jc v. Js

2. “Estoppel in paternity actions is merely the legal determination that because of a person's conduct (e.g. holding out the child as his own, or supporting the child) that person, regardless of his true biological status, will not be permitted to deny parentage[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Pa. Super. 390 - Lsk v. Han

3. “evidence of fraud is relevant to the application of paternity by estoppel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jc v. Js