257 Pa. Super. 1 - Burston v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably John M. v. Paula T. (1990), 344 Pa. Super. 78 - Tyler v. King (1985)
38 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 249 Pa. Super. 274 - In Re Custody of Hernandez · Commonwealth ex rel. Holschuh v. Holland-Moritz · 248 Pa. Super. 168 - Tobias v. Tobias · 244 Pa. Super. 396 - In Re Interest of Clouse · Cairgle v. AMERICAN R. AND SS CORP.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . "unanswerable" . . . cannot be read literally, for to be "unanswerable" the possibility of access would have to be "completely excluded." This would impose a greater burden of proof than required in a criminal proceeding. Instead, "unanswerable" must be read as meaning "exceedingly strong" or "overwhelming," i.e., more than proof that is clear and convincing but not so much more as to exclude every possibility.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to successfully rebut the presumption of legitimacy, the evidence of non-access or lack of sexual intercourse or impotency must be clear, direct, convincing and unanswerable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“clear, direct, convincing and `unanswerable',”
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.