Arner v. Sokol’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Schaffer v. Larzelere (1963), Connor v. Allegheny General Hospital (1983)
48 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 King Et Al., Appellants, v. Brillhart · Miners Savings Bank v. Naylor · Stevens v. Smith · City of Birmingham v. Young · Coll v. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In Miners Sav. Bank of Pittston v. Naylor et al., 342 Pa. 273 , we stated: The tests to be applied when the question presented is whether an amended statement presents a new and different cause of action are, would a judgment bar any further action on either, does the same measure of damages support both, is the same defense open in each, and is the same measure of proof required?’ “In the instant case the answer would be ‘Yes’ to all the questions, and it was, therefore, error for the Court not to permit the proposed amendment”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This result is in accord with the policy of giving “Full opportunity to parties to plead their cause of action, if they have one, and not turn them out of court for technical errors. That is especially true if the objections refer more to the manner of the pleading than to a complete lack of a cause of action. ... It is always desirable to dispose of litigation on the merits, if possible.””
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.