407 Pa. Super. 257 - Lambert v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 444 Pa. Super. 524 - Motorists Insurance Companies v. Emig (1995), 448 Pa. Super. 364 - Allwein v. Donegal Mutual Insurance (1996)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire Insurance · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Commonwealth v. Klinghoffer · Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Ass'n v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Insurance · 370 Pa. Super. 51 - Wolgemuth v. Harleysville Mutual Insurance
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The object of all interpretation and construction of statutes is to ascertain and effectuate the intention of the General Assembly. Every statute shall be construed, if possible, to give effect to all its provisions. (b) When the words of a statute are clear and free from all ambiguity, the letter of it is not to be disregarded under the pretext of pursuing its spirit. (c) When the words of the statute are not explicit, the intention of the General Assembly may be ascertained by considering, among other matters: (1) The occasion and necessity for the statute. (2) The circumstances under which it was enacted. (3) The mischief to be remedied. (4) The object to be attained. (5) The former law, if any, including other statutes upon the same or similar subjects. (6) The consequences of a particular interpretation. (7) The contemporaneous legislative history. (8) Legislative and administrative interpretations of such statute.”
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.