260 Pa. Super. 447 - Shapera v. Levitt’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably 286 Pa. Super. 562 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hagerty v. Eyster (1981), 372 Pa. Super. 251 - Shutter v. Reilly (1988)
28 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 Conway v. Dana · 189 Pa. Super. 276 - Hecht v. Hecht · 226 Pa. Super. 301 - Commonwealth ex rel. Hauptfuhrer v. Hauptfuhrer · 199 Pa. Super. 115 - Commonwealth ex rel. O'Hey v. McCurdy · Commonwealth ex rel. Buonocore v. Buonocore
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot consider the expenditures that the appellee volunteers for his son as a substitute for a support order. The mother, as the custodial parent, has the responsibility of life for the son. She is entitled to the certainty that a reasonable contribution will be made toward that expense and must be in a position to control the expenditures for the necessities of the young man’s existence. Gifts to the son beyond that standard are, of course, welcomed by the son and may contribute to his happiness and well-being; but they cannot be made a substitute for a fair contribution to the custodial parent for basic support. Id., 260 Pa. Super, at 452-453, 394 A.2d at 1014 .”
2 later decisions 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.