437 Pa. Super. 534 - Sullivan v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2018
16 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Santosky v. Kramer · 394 Pa. Super. 30 - Zummo v. Zummo · Jerry v. Francisco · 339 Pa. Super. 590 - Fatemi v. Fatemi
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.
““Due process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the situation demands.” Mathews [v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 ,] 334, 96 S.Ct. [893], 902, [ 47 L.Ed.2d 18 ] [1976]. Mathews allows the government to tailor the amount of procedural protection to the situation by balancing the marginal value of additional protections against the marginal costs such additional protections would impose on the government. 424 U.S. at 335 , 96 S.Ct. at 903 . Prisoners’ claims can be heard without their being removed from prison and physically brought to court. Transporting prisoners across the state imposes a considerable burden upon the Commonwealth. We think this burden will usually outweigh any risk of erroneously depriving prisoners of their legitimate expectations of visitation with their children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]ncarcerated prisoners who petition the court for visitation rights are entitled to a hearing, to notice of this hearing, and to notice of their right to request that they be present at the hearing, by means of a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. S.T. v. R.W.“Due process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the situation demands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. S.T. v. R.W.
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.