2002 Pa. Super. 91 - Borger v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cheeseman v. Lethal Exterminator, Inc. · 456 Pa. Super. 41 - Masel v. Glassman · 438 Pa. Super. 231 - Mathues v. Tim-Bar Corp. · 2000 Pa. Super. 143 - Hoose v. Jefferson Home Health Care, Inc. · 416 Pa. Super. 580 - Greenfeig v. Seven Springs Farm, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiffs choice of forum is given great weight, and the burden is on the party challenging that choice to show it is improper. For the convenience of parties and witnesses the court upon petition of any party may transfer an action to the appropriate court of any other county where the action could originally have been brought. A petition to transfer venue on this basis should not be granted unless the party seeking to transfer venue meets its burden of showing that venue in the chosen forum is oppressive or vexatious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“commute to Philadelphia County would take an hour and a half, compared to the twenty minutes for a trip to the courthouse in Lehigh County”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] petition to transfer venue should not be granted unless the defendant meets its burden of demonstrating, with detailed information on the record, that the plaintiffs chosen forum is oppressive or vexatious to the defendant. [T]he defendant may meet its burden of showing that the plaintiffs choice of forum is vexatious to him by establishing with facts on the record that the plaintiffs choice of forum was designed to harass the defendant, even at some inconvenience to the plaintiff himself. Alternatively, the defendant may meet his burden by establishing on the record that trial in the chosen forum is oppressive to him; for instance, that trial in another county would provide easier access to witnesses or other sources of proof, or to the ability to conduct a view of premises involved in the dispute. But, we stress that the defendant must show more than that the chosen forum is merely inconvenient to him.”
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.