246 Pa. Super. 231 - Coxe v. Coxe’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2000
14 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Clair · Esenwein v. Esenwein · McKrell v. McKrell · Middleton v. Middleton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If we do not take “de novo” too literally, and if we make an earnest effort to give the master’s findings on credibility “the fullest consideration”, I think that at least in most cases we shall not miss the mark by much. If in a given case we conclude to reject the master’s findings, we should explain in detail the basis of our rejection. Thereby we shall avoid, at least as much as possible, the danger of making an arbitrary decision. Id. 246 Pa.Super. at 255 , 369 A.2d at 1309 (dissenting opinion).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`review the testimony and adjudge whether it sustains the complaint of the libellant.'. . . [ Breene v. Breene, 76 Pa.Super. 568, 570 (1921).] Such decision in each divorce case should be founded on the court's personal examination of the testimony . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“while at the same time giving the master's findings on credibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.