369 Pa. Super. 52 - Phillips v. Schoenberger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 438 Pa. Super. 385 - Brindley v. Woodland Village Restaurant, Inc. (1995), 422 Pa. Super. 556 - Bonavitacola v. Cluver (1993)
25 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 SMALICH v. Westfall · Craig v. Magee Memorial Rehabilitation Center · Burrell v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · 263 Pa. Super. 8 - Kravinsky v. Glover · Carroll v. Pittsburgh
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial judge, who was present at the trial and heard the testimony, has broad discretion with respect to granting or refusing a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence; and his decision will not be reversed on appeal unless he has acted capriciously or has abused his discretion. Yandrich v. Radic, [ 291 Pa.Super. 75, 79 , 435 A.2d 226, 229 (1981), appeal dismissed, 499 Pa. 271 , 453 A.2d 304 (1982) ]. A new trial should not ordinarily be granted where the evidence is conflicting and the jury could have decided for either party. Carroll v. Pittsburgh, 368 Pa. 436, 445-446 , 84 A.2d 505, 509 (1951).”
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.