376 Pa. Super. 174 - Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 377 Pa. Super. 391 - Seger v. Seger (1988), 400 Pa. Super. 590 - Choplosky v. Choplosky (1990)
19 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 359 Pa. Super. 487 - Helsel v. Blair County Children & Youth Services · 362 Pa. Super. 516 - Kozlowski v. Kozlowski · 328 Pa. Super. 200 - Mellott v. Mellott
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t any time after commencement of the action, the court may on application or its own motion grant appropriate interim or special relief. The relief may include, but is not limited to, the award of temporary legal or physical custody[.]”
3 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.