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385 Pa. Super. 306 - Stauffer v. Ebersole’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
January 2007
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Sneed · Stickel v. Ohio Casualty Co. · 324 Pa. Super. 123 - Cathcart v. Keene Industrial Insulation · 384 Pa. Super. 132 - Levenson v. Souser · In re Daniel T.

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]o put upon [a patient] the duty of knowing the nature of her ailment and its relation to her prior treatment before it is ascertained with a degree of certainty by the medical profession is a great burden to impose upon her.”
    2 later decisions 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.