299 Pa. Super. 348 - Adams v. Euliano’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2014
15 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 Frowen v. Blank · 229 Pa. Super. 333 - BAKER v. RANGOS · Shane v. Hoffmann · 287 Pa. Super. 400 - Peair v. Home Ass'n of Enola Legion No. 751 · 252 Pa. Super. 370 - National Building Leasing, Inc. v. Byler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A nonsuit should be entered only in a clear case. McMillan v. Mountain Laurel Racing Inc., 240 Pa.Super. 248 , 367 A.2d 1106 (1976); DiGiannantonio v. Pittsburgh R. Co., 402 Pa. 27 , 166 A.2d 28 (1960); Dunmore v. McMillan, [ 396 Pa. 472 , 152 A.2d 708 ] describing how clear the case must be, it has been said that a nonsuit can be entered only when it is inconceivable, on any reasonable hypothesis, that a mind desiring solely to reach a just and proper conclusion in accordance with the relevant governing principles of law, after viewing the evidence in the light most advantageous to the plaintiff, could determine in his favor the controlling issues involved. Borisoff v. Penn Fruit [Company, Inc., 165 Pa.Super. 572 , 69 A.2d 167 (1949)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zvolensky v. King
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.