Doe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2009
14 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Buckley v. American Federation of Television & Radio Artists · Griffin v. California
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court should not be compelled to find appealability solely because of the possible serious consequences asserted or the “importance” of the right which may be compromised if review is not immediately had. Every party resisting discovery rightly invokes a significant claim and every interlocutory order, as the Borden court said, “involves, to some degree, a potential loss.” [Borden Co. v. Sylk, 410 F.2d 843, 846 (3d. Cir.1969).] The common pleas court, having original jurisdiction, is charged with disposing of these conflicting interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here, the documents relate to the action undertaken by the staff and physicians at Mayview State Hospital, which actions Doe asserts, by their negligence, were the proximate eause of her injury. The information sought has the potential to determine the ultimate issues of liability or to dissuade the trier of fact from finding liability at all. When courts have applied the Cohen doctrine to discovery orders, they have held them to be “separable and collateral” only when they did not relate in any way to the merits of the action itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be appealable, an order, though not ending the litigation or disposing of the case, must be separable from and collateral to the main cause of action; it must involve a right too important to be denied review; and the question presented must be such that if review is postponed until final judgment in the case, the claimed right will be irretrievably lost. This doctrine was recognized by our own Supreme Court in Bell v. Consumer Discount Co., 465 Pa. 225 , 348 A.2d 734 (1975), and it has been held that each of the three Cohen factors must be satisfied. Fried v. Fried, 509 Pa. 89 , 501 A.2d 211 (1985).”
1 later decision 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.