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298 Pa. Super. 521 - Morrison v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1995
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 272 Pa. Super. 568 - Peaceman v. Cades

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An action to enforce a joint or joint and several liability against two or more defendants, except actions in which the Commonwealth is a party defendant, may be brought against all defendants in any county in which the venue may be laid against any one of the defendants under the general rules of Subdivisions (a) or (b).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Except when the Commonwealth is the plaintiff, or when otherwise provided by an Act of ... Assembly, an action against a political subdivision may be brought only in the county in which the political subdivision is located.”
    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.