356 Pa. Super. 461 - Katz v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 417 Pa. Super. 93 - Hutchison by Hutchison v. Luddy (1992), 516 So. 2d 606 - Ex Parte Balogun (1987)
86 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. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Estes v. Texas · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he public may be "excluded, temporarily or permanently, from court proceedings or the records of court proceedings to protect private as well as public interests: to protect trade secrets, or the privacy and reputations [of innocent parties], as well as to guard against risks to national security interests, and to minimize the danger of an unfair trial by adverse publicity." "These are not necessarily the only situations where public access ... can properly be denied. A bright line test has yet to be formulated.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]n appeal will lie only from a final order unless otherwise permitted by rule or statute. A final order is one which either ends the litigation or disposes of the entire case. Whether an order is final and appealable cannot necessarily be ascertained from the face of a decree alone, nor simply from the technical effect of the adjudication. The finality of an order is a judicial conclusion which can only be reached after an examination of its ramifications. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated.'”
2 later decisions 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.