375 Pa. Super. 407 - Plasterer v. Paine’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2007
17 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 Chambers v. Montgomery · Commonwealth v. Brady · 57 Cal. 2d 781 - Marshall v. International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union · Commonwealth v. Mulgrew · 357 Pa. Super. 173 - Mohn v. Hahnemann Medical College & Hospital
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record clearly discloses that Bowser was not a client, customer or invitee of the association. Instead, he was one of the members of the association and was actively engaged in organizing and conducting tryouts for teenagers who wished to be a part of the association’s baseball program. Thus, he was one of the joint entrepreneurs who were in possession of the ballfield and actively engaged in conducting the very activity which caused his injury. If the activity were conducted negligently by allowing the batter to hit from a spot in front of the backstop, as appellant contends, that negligence must also be imputed to him. We agree with the trial court, therefore, that the action cannot be maintained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the members of an unincorporated association are engaged in a joint enterprise, and the negligence of each member in the prosecution of that enterprise is imputable to each and every other member, so that the member who has suffered damages ... through the tortious conduct of another member of the association may not recover from the association for such damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... even though the two leading Supreme Court cases “arise out of circumstances where the injured party was actively engaged in a particular association project,” it is apparent from the cases cited by the Supreme Court in its opinion that its decisions did not rest on such narrow ground.”
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.