2004 Pa. Super. 406 - J.S. v. Whetzel’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Cooper v. Schoffstall (2006), Berkeyheiser v. A-Plus Investigations, Inc. (2007)
35 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 Kelly v. Ford Motor Co. · Commonwealth v. Reed · Ben v. Schwartz · In Re Gross · Pap's A.M. v. City of Erie
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A collateral order is an order [1] separable from and collateral to the main cause of action where [2] the right involved is too important to be denied review and [3] the question presented is such that if review is postponed until final judgment in the case, the claim will be irreparably lost.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is not sufficient that the issue be important to the particular parties. Rather it must involve rights deeply rooted in public policy going beyond the particular litigation at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may contain payments from insurance companies or other sources where no litigation was involved, or payments by attorneys in cases unrelated to personal injury,”
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.