290 Pa. Super. 535 - DeSantis v. Yaw’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 district · 19 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Gault · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · International News Service v. Associated Press · Laverick v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[One] ... cannot ... assume that orphanages, foster parents, and juvenile homes have the emotional dedication to fight a prompt legal battle and to maintain the often slow progress through the court system. A foster mother may be honestly dedicated to hot meals and clean linen and emotional support yet quail at the thought of embarking on several years of legal battle for a member of her changeable brood. As to parents themselves, some are lazy or fright ened or ignorant or religiously opposed to legal redress. Still, they have their remedy available to them if they choose to use it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This [argument] ... places tremendous importance on a public policy favoring repose of actions and punishment for delay, while paying almost no attention at all to what certainly appears to be a violation of a fundamental right: a chose in action is a form of personal property that without question now belongs to the injured child itself, and yet he is legally debarred from pursuing his claim. The minor’s tender age has long been recognized as a legal disability, merely a . lack of capacity, and not a punishable lack of moral fiber. A statute designed to “force” a claimant incapable of acting to act is certainly suspect ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the field of children’s rights ... concrete gains by a complicated re-balancing of legal concepts: the relationship of parent and child has become a ‘status, not a property right,’ and yet at the same time the property rights of children in their parents, corresponding to that of parents in children, have increasingly been recognized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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