290 Pa. Super. 48 - Sands v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Nappe v. Anschelewitz, Barr, Ansell & Bonello (1984), 342 Pa. Super. 89 - Lokay v. Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. (1985)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Kassab v. Soya · Posternack v. Am. Cas. Co. of Reading · Neuman v. Corn Exchange National Bank & Trust Co. · 262 Pa. Super. 473 - Junk v. East End Fire Department · Willinger v. Mercy Catholic Medical Center
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Prejudice that would prevent the grant of an amendment must be... something more than a detriment to the other party “since any amendment almost certainly will be designed to strengthen the legal position of the amending party and correspondingly to weaken the position of the adverse party.... To make the advantage sought by an amendment operate as a bar to amendment would be to destroy the right to amend except in cases when a moving party would have no reason to amend.” ’... The test, therefore, is whether the prejudice would go beyond ‘that which would normally flow from the allowance of an amendment.’ ” Sands v. Forrest, 290 Pa. Super. 48, 53 , 434 A.2d 122, 125 (1981) (quoting Cellutron Products Corp. v. Stewart, 223 Pa. Super. 391, 394 , 300 A.2d 900, 901-902 (1972)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party ... by leave of court, may at any time ... amend his pleading. The amended pleading may aver transactions or occurrences which have happened before or after the filing of the original pleading, even though they give rise to a new ... defense.”
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.