2003 Pa. Super. 148 - Ramsay v. Pierre’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2025
12 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 Lamp v. Heyman · Commonwealth v. Starr · Cintas Corp. v. Lee's Cleaning Services, Inc. · In the Interest of O.A. · 432 Pa. Super. 276 - Schriver v. Mazziotti
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pennsylvania has adopted a rule requiring [plaintiffs] to make a good-faith attempt to effect service of process in a timely manner where an action is commenced prior to the running of the statute of limitations but service does not occur until after the expiration of the statutory period. See...Siler v. Khan, 456 Pa.Super. 177 , 689 A.2d 972 ( [Pa.Super.] 1997) (filing complaint tolls statute of limitations, provided that plaintiff attempts to effect [timely] service). What constitutes a good faith effort is assessed on a case-by-case basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is not necessary [that] the plaintiffs conduct be such that it constitutes some bad faith act or overt attempt to delay before the rule of Lamp will apply. Simple neglect and mistake to fulfill the responsibility to see that requirements for service are carried out may be sufficient to bring the rule in Lamp to bear. Thus, conduct that is unintentional that works to delay the defendant’s notice of the action may constitute a lack of good faith on the part of the plaintiff.”
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.