157 Pa. Super. 528 - Jones v. Pittsburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2005
8 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 Harris's Appeal · Patten v. Wilson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court will endeavor to protect attorneys who claim fees from a fund created largely, if not entirely, by their efforts if it is within its grasp and the payment thereof does not unduly interfere with established procedure or the rights of the third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If a principle in law or equity can be found to sustain an award of reasonable counsel fee and costs to the owner’s attorney, who litigated the * * * dispute and whose services helped produce the fund, it ought to be applied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Proie Bros. v. Proie
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.