McEVILLY v. TUCCI’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 444 Pa. Super. 68 - Castings Condominium Ass'n, Inc. v. Klein (1995), 253 Pa. Super. 118 - Tice v. Nationwide Life Insurance (1978)
23 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 BALK v. Ford Motor Co. · McCoy v. Public Acceptance Corp. · Fox v. Mellon · Triolo v. Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Co. · Campbell v. Heilman Homes, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he evidence in the present case indicates that [defendants] ... unjustifiably relied upon [plaintiffs’] ... lack of response to the letter ..., and their mistaken belief that [plaintiffs] ... did not intend to pursue their rights by taking a default judgment. The lower court did not abuse its discretion in deciding that [defendants] ... did not satisfactorily explain their failure to file an answer to the complaint.”
2 later decisions 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.