442 Pa. Super. 381 - Alfred v. Braxton’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 445 Pa. Super. 537 - Miller on Behalf of Walker v. Walker (1995), Garr v. Peters (2001)
107 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. Spriggs v. Carson · McMillen v. McMillen · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · 394 Pa. Super. 30 - Zummo v. Zummo · Watson v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a custody matter, the trial court must file a comprehensive opinion containing its findings and conclusions regarding all pertinent facts. Effective appellate review requires a complete and comprehensive opinion containing an exhaustive analysis of the record and specific reasons for the court’s ultimate decision. When no such opinion is forthcoming, we must remand to the trial court.”
3 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.