Tapler v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2004
5 federal appellate · 11 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 Aliquippa National Bank v. Harvey · Fitzpatrick v. Fitzpatrick · 176 Pa. Super. 453 - Seaboard Radio Broadcasting Corp. v. Yassky · Miller v. Houseworth · 149 Pa. Super. 558 - Tate v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the phrases `clear, precise and indubitable' or `clear and convincing' or `clear and satisfactory' as used in these type of cases have a technical meaning which is that the witnesses must be found to be credible, that the facts to which they have testified are distinctly remembered and the details thereof narrated exactly and in due order, and that their testimony is so clear, direct and weighty and convincing as to enable either a judge or jury to come to a clear conviction, without hesitancy, of the truth of the precise facts in issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plaintiffs were in undisturbed possession of the premises and there was no occasion to bring their action earlier. Laches will not be imputed to one constantly and in complete possession of premises, the title to which is in controversy.”
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.