398 Pa. Super. 211 - Moore v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
18 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 375 Pa. Super. 187 - Eckenrod v. GAF Corp. · 315 Pa. Super. 97 - Harvey v. Hassinger · Balistreri, Appeal Of · 219 Pa. Super. 198 - Ritmanich v. Jonnel Enterprises, Inc. · 270 Pa. Super. 207 - Manning v. Capelli
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) In general. — Whenever it shall be proposed to compromise or settle any claim, whether in suit or not, by or against an estate, or to compromise or settle any question or dispute concerning the validity or construction of any governing instrument, or the distribution of all or any part of any estate, or any other controversy affecting any estate, the court on petition by the personal representative or by any party in interest setting forth all the facts and circumstances, and after such notice as the court shall direct, aided if necessary by the report of a master, may enter a decree authorizing the compromise or settlement to be made. “(b) Pending court action.— “(1) Court order. Whenever it is desired to compromise or settle an action in which damages are sought to be recovered on behalf of an estate, any court or division thereof in which such action is pending and which has jurisdiction thereof may, upon oral motion by plaintiff’s counsel of record in such action, or upon petition by the personal representative of such decedent, make an order approving such compromise or settlement. Such order may approve an agreement for the payment of counsel fees and other proper expenses incident to such action.” (20 Pa.C.S. §3323.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Death Action (a) General Rule. — An Action may be brought ... to recover damages for the death of an individual caused by the wrongful act.... (b) Beneficiaries. — [Tjhis section shall exist only for the benefit of the spouse, children or parents of the deceased_ The damages recovered shall be distributed to the beneficiaries in the proportion they would take the personal estate of the decedent in the case of intestacy and without liability to creditors of the deceased person.... (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.