329 Pa. Super. 1 - Connell v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably State Ex Rel. Human Services Department v. Coleman (1986), 404 Pa. Super. 127 - BO v. Co. (1991)
30 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 305 Pa. Super. 179 - Corra v. Coll · 312 Pa. Super. 158 - Turek v. Hardy · 253 Pa. Super. 171 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Palchinski v. Palchinski · 257 Pa. Super. 1 - Burston v. Dodson · 272 Pa. Super. 340 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Johnson v. Peake
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the court finds that the conclusions of all the experts as disclosed by the evidence based upon the tests are that the alleged father is not the father of the child, the question of paternity, parentage or identity of a child shall be resolved accordingly. If the experts disagree in their findings or conclusions, the question shall be submitted upon all the evidence. 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 6136.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We emphasize, however that our holding is limited to the conclusion that HLA blood test results may be introduced as some evidence of paternity. We do not hold that this evidence is conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Shaffer“Uniform Act on Blood Test to Determine Paternity”
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.