315 Pa. Super. 135 - Spain v. Vicente’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably US Healthcare Inc 88-1180 v. Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia (1990), 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1984)
145 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 212 Pa. Super. 58 - Schacter v. Albert · Posternack v. Am. Cas. Co. of Reading · Anthony v. Koppers Co., Inc. · 284 Pa. Super. 81 - Anthony v. Koppers Co., Inc. · 301 Pa. Super. 475 - Dunlap v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden of demonstrating that no genuine issue of material fact exists and that one is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law, is on the moving party, and the record must be examined in a light most favorable to the non-moving party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a)(1) The defamatory character of the communication. “(2) Its publication by the defendant. “(3) Its application to the plaintiff. “(4) The understanding by the recipient of its defamatory meaning. “(5) The understanding by the recipient of it as intended to be applied to the plaintiff. “(6) Special harm resulting to the plaintiff from its publication. “(7) Abuse of a conditionally privileged occasion.” 42 Pa.C.S. §8343(a).”
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.