Robinson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably In Re: Pamela Knapper, (2005), 376 Pa. Super. 109 - AMICA MUT. INS. v. Donegal Mut. Ins. Co. (1988)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Dorrance's Estate · Raymond v. Leishman · 138 Pa. Super. 339 - Alburger v. Alburger · Magel v. Springs · Second National Bank v. Gardner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) When the defendant is an individual, the writ of summons, or the complaint if the action is commenced by complaint, may be served (1) By handing a copy to the defendant ; or (2) By handing a copy ****** (iii) at any office or usual place of business of the defendant to his agent or to the person for the time being in charge thereof”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]riginal process may be served ... by handing a copy ... at the residence of the defendant to an adult member of the family with whom he resides; but if no adult member of the family is found, then to an adult person in charge of such residence.... (emphasis added).”
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.