Sapper v. Mathers’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably Abel v. Girard Trust Co. (1950), 6 Pa. Commw. 135 - Allegheny County Port Authority v. Flaherty (1972)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Stuart v. City of Easton · T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co. v. Lingenfelter · First Methodist Episcopal Church v. Old Columbia Public Ground Co. · Drace v. Klinedinst · Brendle v. German Reformed Congregation
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a matter of common knowledge that, to meet altered conditions and in the interest of public health, the location of cemeteries must often be changed. Recognizing this, the legislature has provided how and when it may be done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for no other purpose whatsoever than a cemetery or burial ground,”
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.