112 Pa. Super. 578 - Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1995
7 federal appellate · 13 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 Moorehead's Estate · Skelton v. Lower Merion Township · Rutherford Water Co. v. Harrisburg. · Lackawanna County v. James · Erdner v. Erdner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent that the cases prior to the decision in Moorehead's Estate differ therefrom, the former must be considered as overruled. It is a step in the right direction and consonant with public policy and good morals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schreiber v. Kellogg
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.