Mendenhall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2018
6 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 Incollingo v. EWING · Yoffee v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. · Hyndman v. Pennsylvania Railroad · 324 Pa. Super. 177 - Whitman v. Riddell · Stormer v. Alberts Construction Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sign before the curve and also placed a large arrow sign in the curve. The plaintiffs asserted that they offered this evidence not to prove negligence by DOT, but rather, to establish the availability of an affordable and feasible remedy to improve the safety of the curve consistent with the recommendations of their expert. On appeal, this Court concluded that since DOT”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the only use the jury could have made of the proffered evidence would have been to impute antecedent evidence, to the prejudice of [DOT].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plaintiffs' proffered evidence did not relate to any material fact in issue, and hence was irrelevant”
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.