411 Pa. Super. 647 - Melat v. Melat’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 426 Pa. Super. 607 - McArdle v. Tronetti (1993), Commonwealth v. Birch (1992)
34 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 Penn Center House, Inc. v. Hoffman · City of Pittsburgh v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · 379 Pa. Super. 313 - McCain v. Pennbank · 385 Pa. Super. 613 - Hathi v. Krewstown Park Apartments · Knight v. Gulf Refining Company
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Collateral estoppel seeks to preclude a litigant from raising an issue which has previously been determined and applies if (1) the issue decided in the prior case is identical to the one presented in the later case; (2) there was a final judgment on the merits; (3) the party against whom the' plea is asserted was a party or in privity with a party in the prior case; (4) the party or person privy to the party against whom the doctrine is asserted had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior proceeding; and (5) the determination in the prior proceeding was essential to judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A modification does not displace a prior valid contract; rather, the new contract acts as a substitute for the original contract, but only to the extent that it alters it.”
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.