Commonwealth v. Gerstner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
20 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 Johnson v. COM., PA. BD. OF PROB. & PAR. · Greggo v. Wohl · Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Cameron · Pennsylvania State Education Ass'n v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“puts himself in the situation of a lawful parent by assuming the obligations incident to the parental relationship”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the period of limitation does not run during any time when: ..... (3) a child is under 18 years of age when the crime involves injury to the person of the child caused by the wrongful act or neglect, or unlawful violence, or negligence of the child's parents or by a person responsible for the child's welfare, or any individual residing in the same home as the child, or a paramour of the child's parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“embodies two ideas; first, the assumption of a parental status, and, second, the discharge of parental duties. Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Smith, 429 Pa. 561, 565 , 241 A.2d 531, 533 (1968). See also Commonwealth v. Gerstner, 540 Pa. 116 , 656 A.2d 108, 111-113 (1995) for a discussion of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BA v. EE Ex Rel. CE
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.