175 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Zakian v. LILJESTRAND (1970), Daly v. Daly (1956)
8 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Moorehead's Estate · Jones v. Jones · 160 Pa. Super. 438 - Commonwealth v. Berfield · Mauser v. Mauser Et Ux. · Wilson v. Garland
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear that this limitation on the time for taking an appeal applies only to a defendant who questions the jurisdiction of the court and who is specifically given the right of appeal from an interlocutory judgment against him on that question. Wilson v. Garland, 287 Pa. 291, 293 , 135 A. 131 . As to. . . plaintiff . . . the judgment was final and not interlocutory since it dismissed the cause of action. 9 Stand. Pa. Prac., Appeals, § 24. The 1925 Act, supra, does not apply to a plaintiff's right of appeal from such final judgment (cf. Mauser v. Mauser, 326 Pa. 257, 260 , 192 A. 137 ) and plaintiff's appeal taken within 36 days . . . was in time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Messick v. Gordon“are to improve and extend by reciprocal legislation the enforcement of duties of support and to make uniform the law with respect thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A failure to appeal within the time specified will be deemed a waiver of all objections to jurisdiction over the defendant personally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Messick v. Gordon
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.