371 Pa. Super. 500 - Scheidemantle v. Senka’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 365 Pa. Super. 280 - DeWalt v. DeWalt · 327 Pa. Super. 51 - Brown v. Brown · 359 Pa. Super. 106 - Kopp v. Turley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A child support order will not be disturbed unless the trial court committed an abuse of discretion. An abuse of discretion is more than an error of judgment. It must be a misapplication of the law or an unreasonable exercise of judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The lower court’s acceptance of, and ruling on, the post-trial motions does not extend the time for filing of an appeal from the Order of [April 10, 1991], Short of vacating that Order prior to the thirty days from its entry to allow for reconsideration, the court had no jurisdiction thereafter to act on that Order and it was without authority to rule on post-trial motions as it was limited by Pa.R.C.P. 1910.11(k).”
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.