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← 428 PASUPER 337 - Commonwealth v. Gerstner

Commonwealth v. Gerstner’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. COM., PA. BD. OF PROB. & PAR. · 250 Pa. Super. 168 - Spells v. Spells · Greggo v. Wohl · Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Smith · 391 Pa. Super. 162 - Commonwealth v. Bethlehem

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “as an adult babysitter for absent parents, appellant was acting as a `person responsible for the child's welfare' within the meaning of the phrase in 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5554(3). . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “person responsible for the child's welfare”
    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.