424 Pa. Super. 559 - Shears v. Rigley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 456 Pa. Super. 41 - Masel v. Glassman (1997), 432 Pa. Super. 456 - Farley v. McDonnell Douglas Truck Services, Inc. (1994)
69 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Plum v. Tampax, Inc. · 363 Pa. Super. 277 - Petty v. Suburban General Hospital
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur Rules of Civil Procedure provide a plaintiff with options as to where to bring suit, and this Court has emphatically stated that the choice of forum by a plaintiff is entitled to weighty consideration..... [A plaintiff] should not be deprived of the advantages presumed to come from [his or her original] choice “unless the defendant clearly adduces facts that ‘either (1) establish such oppressiveness and vexation to a defendant as to be out of all proportion to plaintiffs convenience ... or (2) make trial in the chosen forum inappropriate because of considerations affecting the court’s own private and public interest factors’ [but ] unless the balance is strongly in favor of the defendant, the plaintiffs choice of forum should rarely be disturbed.” Thus, the party seeking a change of venue bears a heavy burden of justifying the request, and it has been consistently held that this burden includes the demonstration on the record of the claimed hardships.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(e) Inconvenient forum.—When a tribunal finds that in the interest of substantial justice the matter should be heard in another forum, the tribunal may stay or dismiss the matter in whole or in part on any conditions that may be just.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling PSWC’s preliminary objections to venue in Philadelphia County by finding that PSWC regularly conducts business there through the misapplication of Pa.R.C.P. 2179 and controlling case law to the facts revealed through limited discovery on the issue of venue? 2. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling PSWC’s preliminary objections to venue in Philadelphia County where PSWC is subject to the jurisdiction and regulatory control of the Public Utility Commission (“PUC”) and is not authorized to conduct business in Philadelphia County under applicable - certificates of public convenience and tariffs pursuant to 66 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 102, 501 and 1101? 3.Whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling PSWC’s preliminary objections to venue in Philadelphia County where the issue of whether PSWC conducts business there is preempted and/or determined by 66 Pa.C.S.A. § 102 et seq. ?”
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.