398 Pa. Super. 235 - Larkin v. Metz’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2021
17 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 Zlotziver v. Zlotziver · 377 Pa. Super. 83 - Salerno v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. · 396 Pa. Super. 234 - Harford Mutual Insurance v. Moorhead · In Re Estate of Hall · 331 Pa. Super. 326 - Fannin v. Cratty
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a witness to be disqualified as a witness under the Dead Man’s [Statute], the following [conditions] must be proven: (1) the deceased must have had an interest in the matter at issue, ie., an interest in the immediate result of the suit; (2) the interest of the witness must be adverse; and (3) a right of the deceased must have passed to a party of record who represents the deceased’s interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion for summary judgment may properly be granted only if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. In passing upon a motion for summary judgment, the court must examine the record in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. Moreover, it is clear that to survive a motion for summary judgment, the non-moving party may not rely merely upon the controverted allegations of the plead ings, but must set forth specific facts by way of affidavit, or in some other way as provided by the rule, demonstrating that a genuine issue exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 5930. Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in any civil action or proceeding, where any party to a thing or contract in action is dead,... and his right thereto or therein has passed,... to a party on the record who represents his interest in the subject in controversy, neither any surviving or remaining party to such thing or contract, nor any other person whose interest shall be adverse to the said right of such deceased ..., shall be a competent witness to any matter occurring before the death of said party ....”
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.