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← 2000 Pa. Super. 97 - Lear, Inc. v. Eddy

2000 Pa. Super. 97 - Lear, Inc. v. Eddy’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Craver · 452 Pa. Super. 94 - Childers v. Power Line Equipment Rentals, Inc. · Ferrick Excavating & Grading Co. v. Senger Trucking Co. · Price v. Brown · 221 Pa. Super. 32 - Sparrow v. Airport Parking Co. of America

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

  1. “In deciding whether to grant a motion for a directed verdict, the trial court must consider the facts in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party and must accept as true all evidence which supports that party's contention and reject all adverse testimony.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A bailment is a delivery of a personalty for the accomplishment of some purpose upon a contract, express or implied, that after the purpose has been fulfilled, it shall be redelivered to the person who delivered it, otherwise dealt with it according to his directions or kept until he reclaims it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “our scope of review is limited to determining whether the trial court abused its discretion or committed an error of law that controlled the outcome of the case.”
    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.