394 Pa. Super. 234 - Hatbob v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Scarpitti v. Weborg (1992), 453 Pa. Super. 159 - Poleri v. Salkind (1996)
2 district · 35 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 Smith v. Bell Telephone Co. · Eisenberg v. Gagnon · Guy v. Liederbach · Morena v. South Hills Health System · Francioni v. Gibsonia Truck 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admission of evidence is within the sound discretion of the court and the court’s decision will not be reversed in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion. Lewis v. Pruitt, 337 Pa.Super. 419 , 487 A.2d 16 (1985); McCrery v. Scioli, 336 Pa.Super. 455 , 485 A.2d 1170 (1984).”
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.