284 Pa. Super. 459 - Dile v. Dile’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 147 Ohio App. 3d 513 - Anderson v. Anderson (2002), 330 Pa. Super. 420 - Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1984)
32 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 · Ellerbe v. Hooks · 246 Pa. Super. 82 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cutler v. Cutler · Commonwealth ex rel. Beemer v. Beemer · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hickey v. Hickey
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he factor which tipped the scales in favor of awarding custody to the grandmother was the fact that the mother chose to live with . . . a man with several convictions for violent crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.