189 Pa. Super. 430 - Mains v. MOORE’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1998
19 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 Fisher v. Dye · Jones Et Vir v. Williams · Bellettiere v. Philadelphia · Carroll v. Pittsburgh · Schwartz v. Jaffe
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily the grant of a new trial means a new trial generally; it restores a case to the status it had before the trial took place and is fully open to be tried de novo as to all parties and all issues: Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities v. Lynch, 308 Pa. 23, 28 , 162 A. 157 ; Iwankow v. Colonial Ins. Co., 120 Pa.Super. 114, 120 , 181 A. 870 .””
2 later decisions 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.