386 Pa. Super. 82 - Mericle v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
12 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 Amoco Oil Co. v. Snyder · 380 Pa. Super. 183 - Ackler v. Raymark Industries, Inc. · Loutzenhiser v. Doddo · 166 W. Va. 772 - Bennett v. Dove · 341 Pa. Super. 427 - Melmed v. Motts
Most-quoted passages
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““The parties used the words ‘desires to sell’ to express their intent. ‘Sell’ is commonly and ordinarily understood to mean an act of giving up property for money that the buyer either pays or promises to pay in the future, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (P.B. Gove Ed., 1976), and we must conclude that Robert Dove did not sell the property when he gave it to two of his children. “Accordingly, we conclude that the conveyance, a gift, did not violate Mabel Bennett’s preemptive right. Her right did not ripen because Robert Dove never attempted or desired to sell his property.””
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.