433 Pa. Super. 290 - Karner v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably 442 Pa. Super. 263 - Cardamone v. Elshoff (1995), J.A.L. v. E.P.H. (1996)
22 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 Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Commonwealth v. Klinghoffer · 249 Pa. Super. 274 - In Re Custody of Hernandez · Ellerbe v. Hooks
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refers to a person who puts [herself] in the situation of assuming the obligation incident to a parental relationship without going through the formality of a legal adoption. The status of in loco parentis embodies two ideas: first, the assumption of a parental status, and second, the discharge of parental duties. Rosado v. Diaz, 425 Pa.Super. 155 , 624 A.2d 193, 196 (1993) (quoting Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Smith, 429 Pa. 561, 565 , 241 A.2d 531, 533 (1968)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he appellate court is not bound by the deductions or inferences made by the trial court from its findings of fact, nor must the reviewing court accept a finding that has no competent evidence to support it. However, this broad scope of review does not vest in the reviewing court the duty or the privilege of making its own independent determination. Thus, an appellate court is empowered to determine whether the trial court’s incontrovertible factual findings support its factual conclusions, but it may not interfere with those conclusions unless they are unreasonable in view of the trial court’s factual findings[,] and thus ... represent a gross abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he fact that the best interests of the child is the paramount consideration is ... beyond peradventure.... Indeed, even the rights of natural parents are subordinate to the child’s best interest. Constant A. v. Paul C.A., 344 Pa.Super. 49 , 496 A.2d 1 (1985).”
2 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.