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133 Pa. Super. 299 - Prisco v. Difabio’s Empirical Analysis

1938

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1957
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McAvoy v. Kromer · Anderson v. Wood, Appellant · Altomari v. Kruger · Virgilio v. Walker · Rhoads v. Herbert

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An automobile cannot dash around a corner at an undue rate of speed and crash into vehicle or pedestrian, without subjecting the driver to liability. When this duty is disregarded, and an accident happens, responsibility in damages follows”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When a driver of a car approaches a regular crossing at an intersecting street, he is bound to exercise the greatest care for pedestrians thereon, and the car must be operated so as to stop on the shortest possible notice”
    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.