Arzinger v. Baughman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Schaffer v. Larzelere (1963), 344 Pa. Super. 367 - Standard Pipeline Coating Co. v. Solomon & Teslovich, Inc. (1985)
46 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 McFadden v. Pennzoil Company · Miners Savings Bank v. Naylor · Northampton Trust Co. v. Northampton Traction Co. · Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co. v. West Chester Street Ry.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in this Commonwealth that while the right to amend pleadings is ordinarily a matter resting in the sound discretion of the trial court, amendments should be allowed with great liberality at any stage of the case, unless, of course, they violate the law or prejudice the rights of the opposing party (Miners Savings Bank v. Naylor, 342 Pa. 273 , 20 A. 2d 287 ) ; and that this Court is reluctant to foreclose a party because of the failure or neglect of his counsel when obvious injustice will be done (McFadden v. Pennzoil Company, 326 Pa. 277 , 191 A. 584 ). Furthermore, Rule 126, Pa. R. C. P., provides: ‘The rules shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action or proceeding to which they are applicable. The Court at every stage of any such action or proceeding may disregard any error or defect of procedure which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.’ ””
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.