In Re Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably In Re Tameka M. (1990), 418 Pa. Super. 359 - In Re SM (1992)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Uniontown Area School District v. Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission · Schade v. Allegheny County Institution District · 317 Pa. Super. 304 - In Re Lowry
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“best suited to the protection and physical, mental, and moral welfare of the child.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n ordering a disposition under Section 6351 of the Juvenile Act, the court acts not in the role of adjudicator reviewing the action of an administrative agency, . . . rather the court acts pursuant to a separate discretionary role with the purpose of meeting the child's best interests.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“care, protection, and wholesome mental and physical development of children coming within the provisions of this chapter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Tameka M. · In Re EB
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.