Segriff v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simon (1968), Commonwealth v. Sisak (1969)
82 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 Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Karcesky v. Laria · Bellettiere v. Philadelphia · Commonwealth v. Donough · James v. Ferguson
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This principle was most recently enunciated by Mr. Chief Justice BELL in Bohner v. Eastern Express, Inc., 405 Pa. 463, 472 , 175 A. 2d 864 (1961), wherein he quoted the language of Segriff v. Johnston, 402 Pa. 109, 114 , 166 A.2d 496 (1960), as follows: `We will not reverse the grant of a new trial unless (1) there was a clear abuse of discretion or (2) an error of law which controlled the outcome of the case, . . . [citing numerous recent cases].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sternberg v. DIXON“[A] proper administration of justice requires that new trial be not granted on errors which counsel had ample opportunity to correct.”
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.