In re Read’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2021
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 Matter of Sylvester · 428 Pa. Super. 597 - In the Interest of J.R.W. · 375 Pa. Super. 88 - In the Interest of Justin S. · 315 Pa. Super. 510 - In Re Frank W.D. · 418 Pa. Super. 359 - In Re SM
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is limited in a fundamental manner by our inability to nullify the fact-finding of the lower court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jg · In re C.R.S.“Th[e] lessened standard of establishing abuse by the caretakers, coupled with the clear and convincing evidence necessary to find dependency, has been imposed by the Legislature as the standard which the Juvenile Court must apply in deciding abuse cases. Prima facie evidence is not the standard that establishes the child has been abused, which must be established by clear and convincing evidence; it is the standard by which the court determines whom the abuser would be in a given case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jg · In the Interest of S.S.“`Whether a child is lacking proper care and control encompasses two discrete questions: (1) Is the child at this moment without proper care or control? and (2) If so, is such care and control immediately available?'”
2 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.