263 Pa. Super. 27 - Sipe v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably Moore v. Moore (1993), 267 Pa. Super. 235 - Lewis v. Lewis (1979)
70 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spriggs v. Carson · 249 Pa. Super. 274 - In Re Custody of Hernandez · 240 Pa. Super. 382 - Gunter v. Gunter · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Parikh v. Parikh · 248 Pa. Super. 168 - Tobias v. Tobias
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he scope of [appellate] review in a child custody case is of the broadest type. Commonwealth ex rel. Spriggs v. Carson, 470 Pa. 290 , 368 A.2d 635 (1977); Commonwealth ex rel. Myers v. Myers, 468 Pa. 134 , 360 A.2d 587 (1976); In re Custody of Neal, 260 Pa.Super. 151 , 393 A.2d 1057 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in a child custody case is of the broadest type.”
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.