Smith v. Beard

How courts have described this case

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

• establishing dependency court may resolve question of paternity on its own accord following defendant’s inability to comply with paternity blood testing
• “This Commonwealth’s petition practice affords a responding party with notice and an opportunity to be heard before a rule absolute is entered.”
• paternity actions are civil actions in which no absolute right to trial, with or without jury, exists
• right to trial in paternity case is not absolute
• right to trial in paternity case is not absolute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tyler v. King
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-12· cited 79×
• First Union National Bank v. F.A. Realty Investors Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-15· cited 44×
• Zearfoss v. Frattaroli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-19· cited 8×
• Eadie v. Bohatch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-07· cited 4×
• Com. v. McLean, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-09-07· cited 4×
• Schickle v. McFarlin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-12

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Corra v. Coll
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 63×
• Worley v. Augustine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 30×
• Bigham v. Wenschhof
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-05· cited 21×
• Mansfield v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-17· cited 15×
• Hughes v. Hutt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 7×