242 Pa. Super. 87 - Lenkiewicz v. Lange’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably 336 Pa. Super. 22 - Dambacher by Dambacher v. Mallis (1985), 367 Pa. Super. 36 - Vernon v. Stash (1987)
4 federal appellate · 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 Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp. · Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. · Kuisis v. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. · 214 Pa. Super. 384 - MacDougall v. Ford Motor Co. · Cuthbert v. Philadelphia
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not necessary that plaintiff prove with mathematical exactness that the accident could only have been caused in one manner to the exclusion of all other possibilities ... but he must eliminate those other causes, if any, as were fairly suggested by the evidence....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[I]t is not necessary under Pennsylvania law, that every fact or circumstance point unerringly to liability; it is enough that there be sufficient facts for the jury to say reasonably that the preponderance favors liability. . . Also, it is beyond the power of the court to say whether two or more reasonable inferences are `equal.' . . . The facts are for the jury in any case whether based upon direct or circumstantial evidence where a reasonable conclusion can be arrived at which would place liability on the defendant. It is the duty of plaintiff to produce substantial evidence which, if believed, warrants the verdict he seeks." Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, 397 Pa. 134, 138 , 153 A.2d 477, 480 (1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Act of March 29, 19860, P.L. 344, § 1 (17 P.S. § 1171) [repealed], allots four peremptory challenges to the plaintiff and four challenges to the defendant. Pennsylvania appellate courts have consistently interpreted that statute as allowing four challenges to each class of litigants with an antagonistic interest. Additional defendants have interest antagonistic to each other. (citations omitted)”
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.