447 Pa. Super. 118 - Bernhard v. Bernhard’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably In Re Investigating Grand Jury (1991), 2010 Pa. Super. 232 - Step Plan Services, Inc. v. Koresko (2010)
32 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 Stickel v. Ohio Casualty Co. · Clay v. Advanced Computer Applications, Inc. · Nixon v. Nixon · Stambaugh v. Stambaugh · 370 Pa. Super. 497 - Clay v. Advanced Computer Applications, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction is the capacity to pronounce a judgment of the law on an issue brought before the court through due process of law. It is the right to adjudicate concerning the subject matter in a given case.... Without such jurisdiction, there is no authority to give judgment and one so entered is without force or effect. The trial court has jurisdiction if it is competent to hear or determine controversies of the general nature of the matter involved sub judice. Jurisdiction lies if the court had power to enter upon the inquiry, not whether it might ultimately decide that it could not give relief in the particular case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The terms domicile and residence are not interchangeable; whereas residence is a physical fact, domicile is a matter of intention. Except where permitted to live off-base, people in the military have no choice in where they reside, hence in domicile. Therefore, a service person’s domicile is presumed not to change from that person’s domicile at the time of enlistment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the place in which, both in fact and intent, the home of a person is established without any purpose to return to a former home; the place where he lives, in distinction from that where he transacts his business; the place where he chooses to abide, in distinction from that in which he may be for a temporary purpose.”
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.