Scribner v. Chonofsky’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2014
15 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 Cohen v. Markel · 220 Pa. Super. 46 - Colantoni v. Colantoni · 222 Pa. Super. 585 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Welsh v. Welsh · Wife, P. v. Husband, P. · Commonwealth ex rel. Rice v. Rice
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides as follows: The Court shall have exclusive original civil jurisdiction in all proceedings in this State concerning: (3) Enforcement of any law of this State or any subdivision or any regulation promulgated by a governmental agency, or any petitions or actions, for the education, protection, control, visitation, possession, custody, care, or support of children. . In Scribner , the Court noted the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. S.L. v. A.L. · Sl v. Al“(w)hen in 1971, the General Assembly bestowed exclusive civil jurisdiction in the Family Court over all actions to enforce any law for the support of children, it must be assumed that it was aware that the civil law involved was 13 Del.C. § 702 ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gl v. SD“clear intention expressed by the General Assembly by 10 Del. C. § 902 to place all original civil jurisdiction `over family and child matters' in the Family Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sl v. Al
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.