Commonwealth v. Mexal’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably 426 Pa. Super. 245 - Perlberger v. Perlberger (1993), 265 Pa. Super. 58 - Kramer v. Kelly (1979)
33 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 158 Pa. Super. 579 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Firestone v. Firestone · Commonwealth v. Hopkins · Mallinger v. Mallinger · 111 Pa. Super. 202 - Com. of Pa. Ex Rel. Sanders v. Sanders · 162 Pa. Super. 582 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bucciarelli v. Bucciarelli
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a father can be reached by a warrant, it is sufficient to give our courts jurisdiction and compel him to support his wife and children, without regard to his residence or settlement and without reference to where the original desertion or neglect to maintain his family took place. It is of no consequence that the wife and, child live in another state. Commonwealth ex rel. Bucci-arelli v. Bucciarelli, 162 Pa. Superior Ct. 582, 585 , 60 A. 2d 554 (1948); Commonwealth ex rel. Shetzline v. Shetzline, 84 Pa. Superior Ct. 100, 102 (1924); Commonwealth ex rel. Sanders v. Sanders, 111 Pa. Superior Ct. 202 , 169 Atl. 470 (1933). “The defendant is the father of four children. Tie is not supporting them. He has refused and is persisting in his refusal to support them except upon his own terms and conditions. . . . The duty to support children is not dependent upon custody of them. Even assuming that the mother improperly removed the children from defendant’s home to another state, her misconduct in doing so cannot destroy the right of those child,ren to support from their father. Commonwealth v. Hopkins, 241 Pa. 213, 221 , 88 Atl. 442 (1913).” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The duty to support children is not dependent upon custody of them. Even assuming that the mother improperly removed the children from the defendant's home to another state, her misconduct in doing so cannot destroy the right of those children to support from their father. (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he right of a young child to support from its father `is well nigh absolute.'”
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.