2003 Pa. Super. 451 - McCloud v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Tagnani v. Lew · Benson v. Penn Central Transportation Co. · 302 Pa. Super. 235 - Miller v. Hurst · Kimmel v. Somerset County Commissioners
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]egligence per se is the law's acknowledgement that through an individual's violation of a statute or ordinance, it is possible to show that the individual breached his duty to behave as a reasonable person, i.e., that the individual was negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conduct, whether of action or omission, which may be declared and treated as negligence without any argument or proof as to the particular surrounding circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cause harm of the kind the statute was intended to avoid and to a person within the class of persons the statute was intended to protect.”
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.