Ehnes v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Kardos v. Morris (1977), McDonald v. Allen (1965)
46 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 Lened Homes, Inc. v. Philadelphia Department of Licenses & Inspections · Ahrens v. Goldstein · Gagnon v. Speback
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... To open judgment, the petitioner must not only aver a valid defense but he must also establish equitable considerations which impress the court with the need for relief. Lened Homes, Inc. v. Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections, 386 Pa. 50, 53 , 123 A.2d 406, 407 . There must be more than mere conflict of evidence “as would persuade the court that, upon submission of the issue to a jury, a verdict in their favor could be upheld.” Ahrens v. Goldstein, 376 Pa. 114, 121 , 102 A.2d 164, 167 .”
4 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.