271 Pa. Super. 121 - Kessler v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably 286 Pa. Super. 480 - In Interest of Tremayne Quame Idress R. (1981), 337 Pa. Super. 580 - Gerber v. Gerber (1985)
39 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 240 Pa. Super. 382 - Gunter v. Gunter · 226 Pa. Super. 229 - Commonwealth ex rel. Grillo v. Shuster · 242 Pa. Super. 225 - In Re Custody of Myers · 268 Pa. Super. 217 - Garrity v. Garrity · 259 Pa. Super. 395 - Valentino v. Valentino
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is fundamental that in all custody disputes, the best interests of the child must prevail; all other considerations are deemed subordinate to the child’s physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual well being. Commonwealth ex rel. Parikh v. Parikh, 449 Pa. 105 , 296 A.2d 625 (1972); Commonwealth ex rel. Holschuh v. Holland-Moritz, 448 Pa. 437 , 292 A.2d 380 (1972).” Garrity v. Garrity, 268 Pa. Super. 217, 221, 407 A.2d 1323, 1325 (1979). “Among the factors to be considered in determining the best interests of the child are the character and fitness of the parties seeking custody, their respective homes, their ability to adequately care for the child, and their ability to financially provide for the child. Shoemaker Appeal, 396 Pa. 378, 381 , 152 A.2d 666, 668 (1959).” Kessler v. Gregory, 271 Pa.Super. 121, 124 , 412 A.2d 605, 607 (1979). Commonwealth ex rel. Leighann A. v. Leon A., 280 Pa.Super. 249, 252 , 421 A.2d 706, 708 (1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Reports of investigators, agents and doctors cannot be received in evidence, or considered by the court, in a contested case [citations omitted]. The investigators, agents, doctors, etc., must themselves be produced, sworn and examined as witnesses and be subject to cross-examination . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... Reports of investigators, agents and doctors cannot be received in evidence, or considered by the court in a contested case [citation omitted]. The ... agents ... must themselves be produced, sworn and examined as witnesses and be subject to cross-examination.”
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.