404 Pa. Super. 41 - Johnson v. Diesinger’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2015
8 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Zaffarano v. Genaro · 254 Pa. Super. 227 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Williams v. Miller · Heddings v. Steele · 370 Pa. Super. 87 - Fisher v. Fisher
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a dispute between a parent and a third party, including a relative such as a grandparent, the parent has a prima facie right to custody which will be forfeited only if convincing reasons appear that the child’s best interest will be served by an award to a third party.... As the amount of time requested moves the visit further from a visit and closer to custody, the reasons offered in support of the request must become correspondingly more convincing.”
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.