2006 Pa. Super. 247 - McCandless v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2023
9 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 823 (§ 303 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 257
Relies on 455 Pa. Super. 384 - Riley v. Warren Manufacturing, Inc. · 451 Pa. Super. 500 - Commonwealth v. Luktisch · 2000 Pa. Super. 175 - Brezenski v. World Truck Transfer, Inc. · 2002 Pa. Super. 223 - F.D.P. v. Ferrara · 2002 Pa. Super. 138 - Brisbine v. Outside in School of Experiential Education, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general matter, there is no duty to control the acts of a third party unless a defendant stands in a “special relationship” with either the third party whose conduct needs to be controlled or the intended victim of such conduct. (Citations Omitted)[ 8 ] In Pennsylvania, “special relationships” are only those described in sections 316-319 in the Restatement of Torts (Second). Id. These special relationships include a parent’s duty to control a child (§ 316), a master’s duty to control a servant (§ 317), a landowner’s duty to control a licensee (§ 318), and the duty of those in charge of individuals with dangerous propensities to control these individuals (§ 319).[ 9 ]”
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.