John M. v. Paula T.

How courts have described this case

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

• action by putative father to enforce visitation rights and requesting blood tests to prove his paternity
• action by putative father to enforce visitation rights and requesting blood tests to prove his paternity
• the “good cause” requirement of Rule 4010(a) is “a limitation upon the right to compel a litigant to submit to the [blood] test[,] ... [and] entails more than mere relevancy.”
• putative father has standing to litigate a claim that he is the biological father of a child born to a woman while she was married to another, who is presumed to be the child’s father

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• John M. v. Paula T.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-19· cited 141×
• Christianson v. Ely
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-08· cited 41×
• Sanders v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Coburn v. Coburn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-03· cited 24×
• Miscovich v. Miscovich
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-10· cited 18×
• Triffin v. Interstate Funding Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-22· cited 3×
• Williams v. Milliken
  Armstrong County Court of Common Pleas· 1989-06-09

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schlagenhauf v. Holder
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,194×
• Cairgle v. AMERICAN R. AND SS CORP.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-01-02· cited 91×
• Gordon v. Gordon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 84×
• Cairgle v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-01-02· cited 80×
• R.Mcg. v. J.W.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1980-08-11· cited 74×
• Manfredi Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 71×
• Turek v. Hardy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-25· cited 45×
• Burston v. Dodson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 34×
• Gordon v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-13· cited 27×
• Connell v. Connell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-08· cited 26×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ermel v. Ermel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 24×
• Anonymous v. Anonymous
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1984-05-30· cited 24×
• Nixon v. Nixon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-13· cited 14×
• Williams v. Milliken
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-24· cited 6×