Drummond v. Drummond’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Com., Dept. of Public Wel. v. Uec, Inc. (1979), Commonwealth v. Harner (1992)
74 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 Creighan v. Pittsburgh · Brenner v. Sukenik · Reifschneider v. Reifschneider · 189 Pa. Super. 276 - Hecht v. Hecht · Drummond v. Drummond
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the general rule in Pennsylvania that a court is powerless to grant counsel feels in the absence of statutory authorization to the contrary or contractual obligation.”
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.