254 Pa. Super. 381 - Cercone v. Cercone’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 256 Pa. Super. 280 - LeDonne v. Kessler (1978), 362 Pa. Super. 426 - New York Guardian Mortgage Corp. v. Dietzel (1987)
64 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 234 Pa. Super. 452 - Husak v. Berkel, Inc. · 249 Pa. Super. 240 - Amabile v. Auto Kleen Car Wash · 245 Pa. Super. 530 - Bowman v. Sears, Roebuck & Company · 225 Pa. Super. 286 - Prince v. Pavoni · 230 Pa. Super. 199 - Granthum v. Textile Machine Works
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Averments in a pleading to'which a responsive pleading is required are admitted when not denied specifically or by necessary implication. A general denial or a demand for proof, except as provided by subdivision (c) of this rule, shall have the effect of an admission. (c) A statement by a party that after reasonable investigation the party is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of an averment shall have the" "effect of a ' denial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An averment shall be deemed to be denied if proof thereof is demanded and the pleader states either (1) that after reasonable investigation he is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the averment, or (2) that he is without such knowledge or information because the means of proof are within the exclusive control of an adverse party or hostile person.”
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.