384 Pa. Super. 584 - Edmonds v. MBB, INC.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Zakian v. LILJESTRAND · 355 Pa. Super. 17 - Winterhalter v. West Penn Power Co. · 345 Pa. Super. 95 - Kovalesky v. Esther Williams Swimming Pools · 372 Pa. Super. 123 - Schaffer v. Litton Systems, Inc. · 352 Pa. Super. 186 - Riccobono v. Keystone Helicopter Corp.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to Rules 2252(d) and 1026 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, answers which assert new matters in the nature of a crossclaim must be filed within twenty days after service of the complaint. After this time period expires, if a party wishes to amend its answers in order to assert a crossclaim it must either obtain the consent of the adverse party or obtain leave of court. Pa.R.Civ.P. 1033. It is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court to decide whether to permit such an amendment. Schaffer v. Litton Systems, Inc., 372 Pa.Super. 123 , 539 A.2d 360 (1988). However, leave to amend a pleading should be liberally granted absent prejudice to the adverse party. Winterhalter v. West Penn Power Company, 355 Pa.Super. 17 , 512 A.2d 1187 (1986). This court has defined prejudice as: “something more than a detriment to the other party, ‘since any amendment almost certainly will be designed to strengthen the legal position of the amending party and correspondingly to weaken the position of the adverse party.’ ” [citation omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the person sought to be joined is a party, the joining party shall, without moving for severance or the filing of a praecipe for a writ or a complaint, assert in his answer as new matter that such party is alone liable to the plaintiff or liable over to the joining party or jointly or severally liable to the plaintiff or liable to the joining party directly setting forth the ground therefor. The case shall proceed thereafter as if such party had been joined by a writ or a complaint.”
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.