298 Pa. Super. 92 - Pratt v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Miller v. Brass Rail Tavern, Inc. (1995), 367 Pa. Super. 600 - McDaniel v. Merck, Sharp & Dohme (1987)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 119 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Byrne v. Karalexis · Incollingo v. EWING · Commonwealth v. Goosby · Whitner v. Lojeski
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A resident is a licensed physician receiving training in a specialty in a hospital. Now, he was not a fully-trained orthopedist nor was he a general practitioner without any specialized training. He is, therefore, held to exercise that degree of skill, learning and care normally possessed by an orthopedic resident in the circumstances of Dr. Mangino. Under this professional standard of care, a physician must also keep informed of the contemporary developments in the medical profession and his specialty and he must use these current skills and knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It is well settled that a trial court always has the right, and sometimes even the duty to interrogate witnesses, in order to clarify evidence,’ or to elicit new information that is necessary to ensure a fair trial. Commonwealth v. Hodge, 246 Pa.Superior Ct. 71, 79, 369 A.2d 815, 819 (1977). A new trial is required, therefore, only when the trial judge’s questioning amounts to an abuse of discretion. Commonwealth v. Elmore, 241 Pa.Superior Ct. 470, 476, 362 A.2d 348, 351 (1976). Because a charge of this nature is of the most serious type, however,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The plaintiff has the] duty to establish by evidence such facts as would furnish a basis for the legal assessment of damages according to some definite and legal rule. Our law requires not merely conjecture, but rather sufficient data from which damages can be assessed with reasonable certainty. While we do not require mathematical exactness, we cannot award damages by guess or speculation. There must be before us a reasonably fair basis for calculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.