254 Pa. Super. 367 - Reed v. High’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
August 1989
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State of North Carolina · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · May v. Anderson · People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Ford v. Ford
Most-quoted passages
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“not consistent . . . with the principle on which the leading cases rest, viz. : that, whenever a court is called upon to award the custody of a child, the guiding star is its welfare. And the court where the matter is pending must decide that grave question on its own best judgment, unfettered, but not necessarily uninfluenced, by a prior adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The court in State A [from which the children were abducted] knows as well as the court in state B [to which the children were abducted] that the child's welfare is the controlling guide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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