168 Pa. Super. 13 - KRAMER v. MEYER’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1995
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 Sharble v. Kuehnle-Wilson, Inc. · 156 Pa. Super. 375 - Smith Et Ux. v. Amer. Stores Co. · 153 Pa. Super. 347 - Williams v. Overly Manufacturing 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not follow from the fact of the injury in this case that the ladder was a dangerous instrumentality.... That burden of proof was on the plaintiffs. Here, so far as disclosed by the testimony, the instrumentality which caused the injury was a small folding stepladder of the ordinary conventional type. As such it was no more dangerous that a folding chair or other folding device in common use.”
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.