Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schearer v. Schearer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 200 Pa. Super. 640 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ulmer v. Sommerville · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Brown v. Weidner · 204 Pa. Super. 156 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Decker v. Decker · 201 Pa. Super. 484 - Commonwealth v. Camp
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of an agreement to educate, a father has no duty to aid in providing a college education for his child no matter how deserving, willing and able that child may be unless he has sufficient estate, earning capacity, or income to enable him to do so without undue hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under all the facts and circumstances of the present case, we are of the opinion that the appellant could not be required to support his daughter in college without undue hardship to himself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.