436 Pa. Super. 57 - Drawbaugh v. Drawbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Weinand v. Weinand (2000), Geibe v. Geibe (1997)
24 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 Miller v. Miller · 250 Pa. Super. 168 - Spells v. Spells · 286 Pa. Super. 562 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hagerty v. Eyster · Commonwealth v. Cameron · 324 Pa. Super. 363 - Klein v. Sarubin
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.
“If we were to hold that a stepparent acting in loco parentis would be held liable for support even after the dissolution of the marriage then all persons who gratuitously assume parental duties for a time could be held legally responsible for a child’s support.... These acts of generosity should not be discouraged by creating a law which would require anyone who begins such a relationship to continue financial support until the child is eighteen years old.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. A.S. v. I.S. · A.S. v. I.S.
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.