Dash v. Dash’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably 181 Pa. Super. 414 - Rankin v. Rankin (1956), Phipps v. Phipps (1951)
45 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 Nacrelli v. Nacrelli · 119 Pa. Super. 300 - Sleight v. Sleight · 125 Pa. Super. 323 - Rinoldo v. Rinoldo · 155 Pa. Super. 102 - Copeland v. Copeland · 107 Pa. Super. 566 - Shore v. Shore
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, the action was heard by a master, we are obliged [except where there has been an issue and jury trial] to make an independent investigation of the evidence in order to determine whether in truth it does establish a legal cause for divorce : Rinoldo v. Rinoldo, 125 Pa. Superior Ct. 323 , 189 A. 566 ; Nacrelli v. Nacrelli, 288 Pa. 1 , 136 A. 228 . In making the review de novo we have in mind that the burden is upon libellant to prove his case by clear and satisfactory evidence, and that there must be a preponderance of the evidence in his favor or the divorce must be refused: Sleight v. Sleight, 119 Pa. Superior Ct. 300 , 181 A. 69 . . . . We have carefully considered all the evidence and we cannot agree with the Master's findings of fact and recommendation. We think he was over-persuaded by libellant, of whose credibility we have serious doubts. Our independent inquiry reveals the following facts : . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phipps v. Phipps
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.