De Fulvio v. Holst’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 296 Pa. Super. 405 - Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Johnson (1982), 285 Pa. Super. 13 - Kelmo Enterprises, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance (1981)
36 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 Smith v. Equitable Trust Co. · 6 Pa. Commw. 612 - Richmond v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency · Morganroth's Election Contest Case · Dornon v. McCarthy · 151 Pa. Super. 80 - Walker v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule in our judicial system, stemming from the Statute of Gloucester, 6 Edw. 1 , c. 1 (1275) that costs inherent in a law suit are awarded to and should be recoverable by the prevailing party.” De Fulvio v. Holst, 239 Pa.Super. 66 , 362 A.2d 1098, 1099 (1976). Important to our analysis of all Appellant’s issues is the distinction between record costs (such as filing fees) and actual costs (such as transcript costs and witness fees). Record costs are “the costs of proceeding in court, not those of preparation, consultation, and fees generally.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that the conduct of a trial is the province of the judge. His discretion, exercised without abuse, must control.”
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.