247 Pa. Super. 172 - Nicholson v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2006
11 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 Boddie v. Connecticut · Schoepple v. Schoepple · Wilson v. Wilson · 246 Pa. Super. 118 - Tomashefski v. Tomashefski · 226 Pa. Super. 142 - Grerlitzki v. Feldser
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not automatically establish the petitioner’s right to proceed in forma pauperis. “Rule 1137 provides that the court must satisfy itself of the truth of the averment of inability to pay made in the petition before ordering that the petitioner may proceed by paying reduced costs or no costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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