399 Pa. Super. 9 - Dierolf v. Slade’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 2002 Pa. Super. 251 - Yacoub v. Lehigh Valley Medical Associates, P.C. (2002), 441 Pa. Super. 146 - Montgomery v. South Philadelphia Medical Group, Inc. (1995)
33 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 336 Pa. Super. 22 - Dambacher by Dambacher v. Mallis · 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor · Stout v. Commonwealth ex rel. Preate · Commonwealth v. Daniels · Jones v. Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the test is not whether the appellate court would have decided the case in the same way but, rather, whether the jury's verdict was so contrary to the evidence as to shock one's sense of justice and `to make the award of a new trial imperative, so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“never performed surgery, never observed a peroneal nerve injury, is not a neurologist, is not board certified and is rarely present in the operating room”
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.