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· 1/28/1977

Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spriggs v. Carson

Citations

  • 368 A.2d 635
  • 470 Pa. 290
  • 1977 Pa. LEXIS 522

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • \Courts should be wary of deciding matters as sensitive as questions of custody by the invocation of `presumptions.'\
  • “Courts should be wary of deciding matters as sensitive as questions of custody by the invocation of ‘presumptions.’ ”
  • \[O]ur law has long recognized that the scope of review of an appellate court reviewing a custody matter is of the broadest type.\
  • “[0]ur law has long recognized that the scope of review of an appellate court reviewing a custody matter is of the broadest type.”
  • “Courts should be wary of deciding matters as sensitive as questions of custody by the invocation of ‘presumptions.’ ”
  • “Courts should be wary of deciding matters as sensitive as questions of custody by the invocation of ‘presumptions.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Manderiño

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