376 Pa. Super. 276 - Cooper v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 421 Pa. Super. 33 - Whyte v. Robinson (1992), 415 Pa. Super. 41 - Primavera v. Celotex Corp. (1992)
62 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 Feingold v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Commonwealth v. Thomas · Commonwealth v. Daniels · 360 Pa. Super. 119 - Ecksel v. Orleans Construction Co. · 316 Pa. Super. 565 - Fish v. Gosnell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a trial court’s instructions to the jury, it is well settled that we must view the court’s charge in its entirety to determine whether any prejudicial error has been committed. Riddle Memorial Hospital v. Dohan, 504 Pa. 571, 576 , 475 A.2d 1314, 1316 (1984). “A trial court is not required to accept the precise language of points for charge submitted by counsel so long as the issues are defined accurately and the applicable law is correctly reviewed.” Spearing v. Starcher, 367 Pa.Super. 22, 29 , 532 A.2d 36, 40 (1987). See also: Geyer v. Steinbronn, 351 Pa.Super. 536, 554 , 506 A.2d 901, 911 (1986); Fish v. Gosnell, 316 Pa.Super. 565, 580 , 463 A.2d 1042, 1050 (1983).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In considering the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict winner, granting that party the benefit of all reasonable inferences, and determine only whether the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to sustain the verdict. Curran v. Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, 361 Pa.Super. 17, 24 , 521 A.2d 451, 454 (1987). See also: Laniecki v. Polish Army Veterans Assoc., 331 Pa.Super. 413, 417 , 480 A.2d 1101, 1103 (1984).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“having essentially a second opinion is always helpful”
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.