374 Pa. Super. 289 - Commonwealth v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2020
23 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 Allstate Insurance v. Heffner · 317 Pa. Super. 497 - Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Commonwealth v. Story · United States v. Richardson · 360 Pa. Super. 430 - REDENZ BY REDENZ v. Rosenberg
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a new period of limitations is enacted, and the prior period of limitations has not yet expired, in the absence of language in the statute to the contrary, the period of time accruing under the prior statute of limitations shall be applied to calculation of the new period of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except as provided in section 404, the amendments to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 55 (relating to limitations of time), effected by this act, shall apply only to causes of action which accrue after the effective date of this act.”
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.