343 Pa. Super. 547 - Wood v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 371 Pa. Super. 49 - Robertson v. Atlantic Richfield Petroleum Products Co. (1987), 430 Pa. Super. 526 - General Equipment Manufacturers v. Westfield Insurance (1993)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Hamil v. Bashline · Hader v. Coplay Cement Mfg. Co. · Gradel v. Inouye · Abbott v. Steel City Piping Co. · Engle v. Reider
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court may adopt as the standard of conduct of a reasonable man the requirements of a legislative enactment or an administrative regulation whose purpose is found to be exclusively or in part, “(a) to protect a class of persons which includes the one whose interest is invaded, and “(b) to protect the particular interest which is invaded, and “(c) to protect that interest against the kind of harm which has resulted, and “(d) to protect that interest against the particular hazard from which the harm results.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The primary duty of a trial judge in charging a jury is to clarify the issues so that the jury may comprehend the questions they are to decide. The instructions must give the jury a reasonable guide for the determination of the question of the defendant’s or plaintiff’s alleged negligence and on the duty of care or duty to inspect required by any person. The jury cannot determine whether a party is guilty of negligence or contributory negligence without knowing the degree of care required of that party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Proof of the violation of a statute or ordinance is permissible, not as conclusive proof of negligence, but as evidence to be considered with all other evidence in the case.'”
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.