297 Pa. Super. 461 - Bender v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2007
17 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 189 Pa. Super. 276 - Hecht v. Hecht · 251 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wasiolek v. Wasiolek · Commonwealth ex rel. Kaplan v. Kaplan · 261 Pa. Super. 12 - Bender v. Bender
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Of course, a court is not strictly bound by the nurturing parent's assertion that the best interest of the child is served by the parent's presence in the home. . . . But the court must balance several factors before it can expect the nurturing parent to seek employment. Among these factors are the age and maturity of the child; the availability and adequacy of others who might assist the custodian-parent; the adequacy of available financial resources if the custodian-parent does remain at home. We underscore that, while not dispositive, the custodian-parent's perception that the welfare of the child is best served by having a parent at home is to be accorded great weight in the court's calculation of its support order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n addition to [the] factors which are specifically enunciated in Wasiolek , the court on remand may wish to consider the fact that the child to be “nurtured” is not the subject of the support order, although we do not feel that this fact necessarily removes this case from the application of the “nurturing parent doctrine.””
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.