81 Md. App. 314 - Pastore v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2019
19 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 Ross v. Hoffman · 38 Md. App. 406 - Montgomery County Department of Social Services v. Sanders · Cockerham v. Children's Aid Society · Butler v. Perry · 73 Md. App. 588 - Newkirk v. Newkirk
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n addition to ... statutory factors, courts may consider 'such parental characteristics as age, stability, and the capacity and interest of a parent to provide for the emotional, social, moral, material, and educational needs of the child.'”
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.