Raker v. Raker’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2020
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 Commonwealth v. Brown · 402 Pa. Super. 276 - Williamson v. Williamson · 445 Pa. Super. 537 - Miller on Behalf of Walker v. Walker · 411 Pa. Super. 80 - Soda v. Baird · Commonwealth v. Bryant
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.
“deciding the merits of the case prior to the hearing while having only conducted an exparte [sic] interview with the [Child]. The Trial Court did not decide the merits of the case prior to the hearing, nor was the Order following the evidentiary hearing based on the in camera interview conducted prior to the issuance of the Temporary Order on January 16. Here again, [Mother] confuses the context of the ex parte interview and seeks to impute the granting of the PFA to an imagined procedural deficiency. The temporary PFA, as discussed above, was properly ordered after a properly held ex parte hearing on January 16. The final PFA was properly ordered based on testimonial evidence heard at the evidentiary hearing held pursuant to 23 Pa. C.S.A. § 6107 (a). [Child] had the burden of proving her allegation of abuse by a preponderance of the evidence. 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 6107 (a). The preponderance of the evidence standard "is defined as the greater weight of the evidence...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Abuse." The occurrence of one or more of the following acts between family or household members, sexual or intimate partners or persons who share biological parenthood: * * * (5) Knowingly engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts toward another person, including following the person, without proper authority, under circumstances which place the person in reasonable fear of bodily injury. The definition of this paragraph applies only to proceedings commenced under this title and is inapplicable to any criminal prosecutions commenced under Title 18 (relating to crimes and offenses).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a claim is presented on appeal that the evidence is not sufficient to support an order of protection from abuse, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the petitioner and granting her the benefit of all reasonable inference, determine whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the trial court’s conclusion by a preponderance of the evidence.... This court defers to the credibility determinations of the trial court as to witnesses who appeared before it.”
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.