391 Pa. Super. 79 - In Re PAB’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably In re T.S.M. (2013), 2003 Pa. Super. 210 - In Re Adoption of M.E.P. (2003)
56 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 Santosky v. Kramer · In Re William L. · Beatty v. Lycoming County Children's Services · In Re Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of Burns · In Re Adoption of JJ
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] court, in considering what situation would best serve the child's needs and welfare, must examine the status of the natural parental bond to consider whether terminating the natural parents' rights would destroy something in existence that is necessary and beneficial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 2511. Grounds for involuntary termination (a) General rule. The rights of a parent in regard to a child may be terminated after a petition filed on any of the following grounds: . . . . (5) The child has been removed from the care of the parent by the court or under a voluntary agreement with an agency for a period of at least six months, the conditions which led to the removal or placement of the child continue to exist, the parent cannot or will not remedy those conditions within a reasonable period of time, the services or assistance reasonably available to the parent are not likely to remedy the conditions which led to the removal or placement of the child within a reasonable period of time and termination of the parental rights would best serve the needs and welfare of the child. (b) Other considerations. The court in terminating the rights of a parent shall give primary consideration to the needs and welfare of the child. ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, the record only suggests in one statement in testimony that there may be a possibility that [the child's] foster parents will adopt her. No alternative permanent situations are on the horizon for [the children]. Thus termination would cut off a natural and beneficial parent-child bond and would not facilitate putting another in its place. Termination would stabilize nothing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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