Clair Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Pinder · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Doberstein v. Doberstein · 183 Pa. Super. 411 - Commonwealth ex rel. McDonald v. McDonald · 197 Pa. Super. 397 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bender v. Bender · 219 Pa. Super. 240 - Commonwealth ex rel. Parikh v. Parikh
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, an appellate court must always give great weight to the opinion of the trial judge who has the opportunity to see and hear the witnesses and judge their credibility and talk to the children involved.”
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.