2004 Pa. Super. 357 - Jackson v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2021
17 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 McMillen v. McMillen · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · Moore v. Moore · 425 Pa. Super. 450 - Sawko v. Sawko · 2004 Pa. Super. 57 - Arnold v. Arnold
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.
“[t]he discretion that a trial court employs in custody matters should be accorded the utmost respect, given. the special nature of the proceeding and the lasting impact the result will have on the lives of the parties concerned. Indeed, the knowledge gained by a trial court in observing witnesses in a custody proceeding cannot adequately be imparted to an appellate court by a printed record.”
6 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.