Fox v. Byrne’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2024
10 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 Ayers v. Morgan · 332 Pa. Super. 48 - Bartanus v. Lis · 250 Pa. Super. 194 - Provident National Bank v. Rooklin · 302 Pa. Super. 124 - Stein v. Richardson · Ruhe v. Kroger Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court was willing to search the' pleadings to determine whether the [plaintiffs] had at any time asserted that they were-unable-to discover the injury or- could not have-been able to discover the injury until such time as would prevent-the statute from acting as a bar.”). Developer’s Complaint states in relevant part:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A plaintiff who wishes to assert the discovery rule may do so in one of two ways: 1) by pleading in the complaint sufficient facts to sustain application of the rule; or 2) by Waiting until the defendant asserts a statute of limitations defense in new matter and then raising the - discovery rule in a responsive pleading.”
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.