373 Pa. Super. 521 - Buckl v. Buckl’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 426 Pa. Super. 245 - Perlberger v. Perlberger (1993), 90 Md. App. 176 - Ross v. Ross (1992)
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 Stern v. Stern · Dugan v. Dugan · 339 Pa. Super. 185 - Braderman v. Braderman · 316 Pa. Super. 282 - Ruth v. Ruth · 366 Pa. Super. 19 - DeMasi v. DeMasi
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistís] of the partners’ capital accounts, accounts receivable, the value of work in progress, any appreciation in the true worth of tangible property over and above book value, together with goodwill, should there be any.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Good will is the favor which the management of a business has won from the public, and probability that old customers will continue their patronage, (citation omitted). 38 Am.Jur.2d Goodwill § 3 states: Good will is property of an intangible nature and constitutes a valuable asset of the business of which it is part, unless, in the particular instance it is of too uncertain and contingent a nature to be appraised. Often a large portion of the intrinsic marketable or assessable value of a business consists of its good will. However, good will cannot be separated from the business in which it inheres, nor can it be disposed of independently from the business. It has no existence as property in and of itself, as a separate and distinct entity, but only as an incident of a continuing business having locality or name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although it is most unlikely that the agreement will deal with valuation of a partner's interest vis a vis equitable distribution upon dissolution of the marital relationship.”
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.