2014 Pa. Super. 170 - Dougherty v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart · Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton · United States v. American College of Physicians · Allied Corp. v. District 17, United Mine Workers · Pansy v. Borough of Stroudsburg
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 5 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.”
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.