228 Pa. Super. 312 - Augustine v. Augustine’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably 249 Pa. Super. 274 - In Re Custody of Hernandez (1977), 240 Pa. Super. 382 - Gunter v. Gunter (1976)
74 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 226 Pa. Super. 229 - Commonwealth ex rel. Grillo v. Shuster · Commonwealth ex rel. Holschuh v. Holland-Moritz · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Parikh v. Parikh · Commonwealth ex rel. Rainford v. Cirillo · 194 Pa. Super. 210 - Commonwealth ex rel. Logue v. Logue
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he trial of a child custody case is likely to become an exploration of the mother's past conduct in an effort by the father to show that she is unfit to care for the child. Past conduct may be forgiven, for `[c]ustody must be determined on the basis of facts as they exist at the time of the habeas corpus hearing [citations omitted].' Commonwealth ex rel. Shipp v. Shipp, 209 Pa.Super. 58, 60 , 223 A.2d 906, 907 (1966). `This principle has application even where there has been a serious lapse from moral standards by the mother, provided her past misconduct will not adversely affect the best interests of the child.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The lower court proceedings indicate what we believe to be an undue emphasis on the past `harvest' of the `poisoned and damaged crop' of this marriage. We may not be oblivious to the apparent unceasing friction between the parties, who married because of `moral' duty rather than love. If the wife was somewhat neglectful of her household and motherly duties, who is to say whether the marital atmosphere did not contribute to or even cause the consequences? The inquiry below seems to have centered on the past conduct of the mother in resolving her present claim. This may not be done."”
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.