398 Pa. Super. 1 - Melvin v. Melvin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2014
12 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 Schultz v. Erie Insurance Exchange · Mazi v. McANLIS · Zellman v. Fickenscher · 375 Pa. Super. 37 - Seay v. Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance · Wood v. Garrett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of the Protection From Abuse Act [23 Pa. Cons.Stat. § 6101 et seg.], and the amendments to that act by the Probable .Cause Arrest Statute [18 Pa. Cons.Stat. § 2711], as well as the various publicly and privately funded services provided to victims of domestic abuse were designed to ameliorate the inadequacies of the traditional approach to domestic violence.... They will be wholly ineffectual, however, if the police, the courts and counsel fail to fulfill their express, statutory obligations to assist victims of such abuse to pursue the benefits our "vanguard” reforms offer.”
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.