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186 Pa. Super. 561 - Emerman v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis

1958

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
5
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 328 Pa. Super. 135 - Thorsen v. Iron and Glass Bank (1984), 356 Pa. Super. 192 - Reimer v. Tien (1986)

8 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

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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 Sanders v. Pottlitzer Bros. Fruit Co. · Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission v. Israel · Taylor v. Stanley Co. of America · Harman Et Ux. v. Chambers · Kaufmann v. Liggett

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “breach is wanton or reckless and caused bodily harm and where the contract is to render a performance of such a character that the defendant had reason to know when the contract was made that the breach would cause mental suffering for reasons other than mere pecuniary loss.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The minds of the parties having met and reached an accord as to the essential provisions of the contract, such writing would simply exhibit just what they agreed upon and understood. Although a formal contract is to be thereafter executed, if the terms have been agreed upon, legal obligations may arise.”
    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.