Thompson v. Cortese’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 321 Pa. Super. 132 - Tanner v. Allstate Insurance (1983), In Re Administrative Order No. 1-Md-2003 (2007)
27 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 James Bros. Co. v. Union B. & T. Co. of DuBois · Haverford Township School District v. Herzog · 250 Pa. Super. 378 - INTERN. TEL. & TEL. v. Phila. Elec. Co. · Rhinehart v. Jordan · Commonwealth ex rel. Lindsley v. Robinson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Thompson , we recognized that Pa.R.J.A. No. 1901 sets forth a judicial policy to resolve pending cases as promptly as possible and, if a plaintiff’s stale claim is dismissed, he may still petition the court to (1) take off the non pros or (2) bring a second action. Flowers, supra, at 897, n.2 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, if a plaintiff’s stale claim is dismissed, he may still petition the court to take off the non pros or bring a second action regardless of whether or not a formal entry of judgment has been made. (Emphasis as supplied by appellant’s brief)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he prothonotary is not `an administrative officer who has discretion to interpret statutes.'”
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.