320 Pa. Super. 87 - Brenckle v. Arblaster’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 414 Pa. Super. 85 - Geisinger Clinic v. Di Cuccio (1992), 410 Pa. Super. 146 - Murphy v. Murphy (1991)
54 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 281 Pa. Super. 69 - Gold & Co. v. Northeast Theater Corp. · 277 Pa. Super. 70 - Shearer v. Moore · 305 Pa. Super. 86 - In Re Estate of Roos · Mason v. Director of Motor Vehicles · 261 Pa. Super. 344 - Golomb v. Korus
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following participants shall be entitled to a reasonable counsel fee as part of the taxable costs of the matter: ****** (7) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees as a sanction against another participant for dilatory, obdurate or vexatious conduct during the pendency of a matter. ****** (9) Any participant who is awarded counsel fees because the conduct of another party in commencing the matter or otherwise was arbitrary, vexatious or in bad faith ...”
2 later decisions 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.