MacChia v. Megow’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A. (1984), Taylor v. Kaufhold (1951)
34 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 Meitner v. Scarborough · Clyde Coal Co. v. Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad · Seward v. Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. · Raby, Inc. v. Ward-Meehan Co. · Perletto v. Lancaster Avenue Building & Loan Ass'n
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Parties, when they enter into contracts, may well be presumed to contemplate the ordinary and natural incidences and consequences of performance or non-performance; but they are not supposed to know the condition of each other’s affairs, nor to take into consideration any existing or contemplated transactions not communicated or known, with other persons. New persons would enter into contracts of any considerable extent as to subject matter or time if they should thereby incidentally assume responsibility of carrying out, or be legally held affected by other arrangement over which they have no control.’”
5 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.