Ham v. Gouge’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Novelty Knitting Mills, Inc. v. Siskind (1983), Blofsen v. CUTAIAR (1975)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Welser v. Ealer · Commonwealth v. Monongahela Bridge Co. · Lapayowker v. Lincoln College Preparatory School · Culbertson v. Cook · Floyd v. Kulp Lumber Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is present here is an unadjudicated inconsistent position taken by defendants in a prior proceeding voluntarily withdrawn by plaintiff. Defendants cannot thus be estopped from asserting a position contrary to the one they never had an opportunity to prove or have adjudicated. At most, the defendants’ pleadings in the prior action were admissible as admissions....” Id. at 214 Pa.Super. 428 , 257 A.2d 652 .”
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.