335 Pa. Super. 599 - Mariscotti v. Tinari’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Muhammad v. Strassburger, McKenna, Messer, Shilobod & Gutnick (1991), 370 Pa. Super. 422 - Pelagatti v. Cohen (1987)
75 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 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen · 328 Pa. Super. 135 - Thorsen v. Iron and Glass Bank · 266 Pa. Super. 396 - Schenkel v. Monheit · 275 Pa. Super. 65 - Duke & Co. v. Anderson · 303 Pa. Super. 559 - Pashak v. Barish
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere breach of a professional duty, causing only nominal damages, speculative harm, or the threat of future harm — not yet realized — does not suffice to create a cause of action for negligence. The test of whether damages are remote or speculative has nothing to do with the difficulty in calculating the amount, but deals with the more basic question of whether there are identifiable damages. Thus, damages are speculative only if the uncertainty concerns the fact of damages rather than the amount.”
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.