317 Pa. Super. 481 - Cady v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 346 Pa. Super. 563 - Bresnock v. Bresnock (1985), G.B. v. M.M.B. (1996)
27 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 · 226 Pa. Super. 229 - Commonwealth ex rel. Grillo v. Shuster · 301 Pa. Super. 239 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Newcomer v. King · 252 Pa. Super. 95 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schwarz v. Schwarz · 271 Pa. Super. 121 - Kessler v. Gregory
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the parents’ right to custody will be forfeited only if convincing reasons “appear that the child’s best interest will be served by an award to the third party.” In such instances, the evidentiary scale favors the parent. What the hearing judge must do is to hear all evidence relevant to the child’s best interest, and then, decide whether the evidence on behalf of the third party is weighty enough to tip the scale down on the third party’s side.”
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.