Grutski v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simmons (1948), Downey v. Weston (1973)
57 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 Stark v. Fullerton Trucking Co. · Commonwealth v. Farrell · 134 Pa. Super. 447 - Duffy v. Griffith · Basel v. Pittsburgh · Shepherd v. Philadelphia
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That plaintiffs were entitled to show the jury what compensation the doctors were receiving is unquestioned because their arrangements could have been such as to affect their credibility as witnesses, not only on the medical side of the case, but on the merits as well, and this has been definitely decided.” 352 Pa. at 405 , 43 A. 2d at 144 . “ ‘Whatever tends to show the interest or feeling of a witness in a cause is competent by way of cross examination’ . . . ‘The fact that an expert witness is to receive, or has received, per diem compensation beyond the legal witness fee does not affect his competency as a witness, and it may have very slight bearing upon the question of his impartiality. Nevertheless, his relation to the party calling him may be such as to warrant the jury in taking it into consideration in weighing his testimony.” (Citations omitted.) 352 Pa. at 406 , 43 A. 2d at 144 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It was pertinent for the jury to know what arrangements the doctors had made or were contemplating making for compensation for their services in the case and the trial judge’s refusal to require them to testify under oath, and subject to cross examination, constituted substantial error which makes necessary the granting of a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whatever tends to show the interest or feeling of a witness in a cause is competent by way of cross-examination.”
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.