Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 222 Pa. Super. 373 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Morales v. Morales · Clair Appeal · 103 Pa. Super. 27 - In Re Custody of Minor Children of Rosenthal · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Skurat v. Gearhart · 195 Pa. Super. 262 - Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Johnson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the court below found that the children had expressed a preference to remain with their father, there is no record of any testimony by the children. Such testimony is necessary to support a finding of the children’s preference where, as here, it is the principal reason for awarding them to their father. See Commonwealth ex rel. Morales v. Morales ...””
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.