320 Pa. Super. 348 - Moorman v. Tingle’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2009
22 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 · Albright v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fetters · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Zaffarano v. Genaro · 263 Pa. Super. 27 - Sipe v. Shaffer
Most-quoted passages
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“... [T]he parents have a “prima facie right to custody”, which will be forfeited only if “convincing reasons” appear that the child’s best interest will be served by an award to the third party. Thus, even before the proceedings start, the evidentiary scale is tipped, and tipped hard, to the parents side. What the judge must do, therefore, is first, 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 bring the scale up to even, and down on the third party’s side.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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