250 Pa. Super. 49 - Hoffman v. Gekoski’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 455 Pa. Super. 276 - Smith v. Cumberland Group, Ltd. (1997), 376 Pa. Super. 329 - Walton v. Philadelphia National Bank (1988)
32 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 Flightways Corp. v. Keystone Helicopter Corp. · Field v. Golden Triangle Broadcasting, Inc. · Lincoln University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education v. Lincoln University Chapter of the American Ass'n of University Professors · Yuhas v. Schmidt · Harrisburg School District v. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When one party seeks to enjoin another from proceeding to arbitration, judicial inquiry is limited to the question of whether the parties agreed to arbitrate. Allentown Supply Corp. v. Hamburg Mun. Auth., 463 Pa. 167 , 344 A.2d 477 (1975); Independence Development Inc. v. American Arbitration Ass’n, 460 Pa. 390 , 333 A.2d 781 (1975). A party who can establish that he did not agree to arbitrate may be entitled to enjoin an arbitration an arbitration proceeding which seeks to bind him by its ruling. Flightways Corp. v. Keystone Helicopter Corp., 459 Pa. 660 , 331 A.2d 184 (1975).”
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.