336 Pa. Super. 446 - Rinehimer v. Rinehimer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 394 Pa. Super. 30 - Zummo v. Zummo (1990), 401 Pa. Super. 171 - Stolarick v. Novak (1991)
29 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spriggs v. Carson · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · Fisher v. Hill · In Re Davis · 325 Pa. Super. 39 - In Re Donna W.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e neither intend to, nor are capable of, rendering a value judgment on the intrinsic truth of the varied religious beliefs, but confine our investigation solely to any detrimental effect their practice may have on the development of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he lower court was obligated to consider the testimony of the two experts[.]”
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.