258 Pa. Super. 519 - Lebeau v. Lebeau’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 225 - Day v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft (1983), 328 Pa. Super. 442 - In Re Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1984)
50 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · Schubach v. Silver · Callery v. Blythe Township Municipal Authority
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An issue is not actually litigated if the defendant might have interposed it as an affirmative defense, but fails to do so; nor is it actually litigated if it is raised by a material allegation of a party’s pleading but is admitted (explicitly or by failure to deny); nor is it actually litigated if it is the subject of a stipulation between the parties. ... If the defendant fails to plead or otherwise defend, nothing is put in issue. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. There is an identity of the thing sued upon; 2. There is an identity of the cause of action; 3. There is an identity between the persons or parties to the action; 4. There is an identity of the quality or capacity of the parties suing or being sued.”
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.