178 Pa. Super. 593 - Nolan v. HAKE’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1991
5 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 Lente v. Luci · In Re the Claims of Petrie · People v. . Shilitano · 136 Pa. Super. 277 - Morrow v. James S. Murray & Sons · 128 Pa. Super. 233 - Ciotti v. Jarecki 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To require that the entire phalange be removed before it is compensable would be unduly strict and not in keeping with this liberal policy of the Act____ The legislative intent clearly was not to compensate merely for the exact physical extent of the loss, but rather to provide to the working man remedial compensation consistent with what common experience shows the true loss to be____ We think a loss of substantially all, or more than half, of the phalange is equivalent to the loss of the whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The loss of the first phalange of the thumb, or of any finger, shall be considered equivalent to the loss of one-half of such thumb, or finger, and shall be compensated at the same rate as for the loss of a thumb, or finger,' but for one-half of the period provided for the loss of a thumb, or finger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think a loss of substantially all, or more than half, of the phalange is equivalent to the loss of the whole.””
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.