Marchak v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2012
13 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 American Car & Foundry Co. v. Alexandria Water Co. · McFarland v. Schultz · Burrows v. Carson · Mullooly v. Short · 117 Pa. Super. 246 - Intercoastal Lumber Distributors, Inc. v. Derian
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.
“[A]ll the cases agree that a substantial compliance is sufficient, and this is shown to exist wherever enough appears, on the face of the statement, to point the way to successful inquiry. Adherence to the terms of the statute is indispensable, but the rale must not be pushed into such niceties as to serve but to perplex and embarrass a remedy intended to be simple and summaiy, without, in fact, adding anything to the security of the parties having an interest in the building sought to be encumbered. Certainty to a common intent has, therefore, always been held to suffice.”
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.