382 Pa. Super. 356 - Commonwealth v. Lavelle’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 220 Ill. App. 3d 832 - Fenderson v. ATHEY PRODUCTS CORP. KOLMAN DIV. (1991), Fizzano Brothers Concrete Products, Inc. v. XLN, Inc. (2012)
22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Commissioner v. Engle · American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago v. Haroco Inc · Dann v. Johnston · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · United States v. Dion
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a de facto merger to occur, there must be continuity of the successor and predecessor corporation as evidenced by (1) continuity of ownership; (2) a cessation of ordinary business and dissolution of the predecessor as soon as practically and legally possible; (3) assumption by the sue cessor of the liabilities ordinarily necessary for the uninterrupted continuation of the business of the predecessor, and (4) a continuity of management, personnel, physical location, aspects, and general business operation. Not all of these factors are needed to demonstrate a merger; rather, these factors are only indicators that tend to show a de facto merger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(3) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity. (4) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of ... this subsection.”
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.