165 Pa. Super. 507 - Winner v. Messinger’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2026
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Mielcuszny Et Ux. v. Rosol (Et Ux.) · Fuel City Mfg. Co. v. Waynesburg Products Corp. · Pinsky v. Master · Quaker City Chocolate & Confectionery Co. v. Warnock Building Ass'n · Horn v. Witherspoon
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The record is sufficient to support an inference that [defendant] felt that, since he had never possessed any of the goods sought to be replaced, it was not necessary for him to make any formal explanation of his failure to answer the complaint[.] . . . ". . . [T]he Gas Company has no standing to bring an action of replevin against appellant, who is not in a position to deliver the goods in the event that judgment be rendered against him."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The record is sufficient to support an inference that [defendant] felt that, since he had never possessed any of the goods sought to be replaced, it was not necessary for him to make any formal explanation of his failure to answer the complaint[.] . “ . . [T]he Gas Company has no standing to bring an action of replevin against appellant, who is not in a position to deliver the goods in the event that judgment be rendered against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An action of replevin cannot be maintained against one not in actual or constructive possession of the property sought to be recovered, so that the defendant, if judgment be rendered against him, may make delivery thereof to the plaintiff.”
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.