424 Pa. Super. 615 - Dolan v. Carrier Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2026
23 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 Paxton National Insurance v. Brickajlik · 407 Pa. Super. 404 - Gemini Equipment Co. v. Pennsy Supply, Inc. · 381 Pa. Super. 606 - Commonwealth v. Hunter · 408 Pa. Super. 435 - Commonwealth v. Murray · Moidel v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Had the jurors been influenced by [Simpson’s] testimony, and, therefore, arguably swayed to deny damages, according to the special verdict questionnaire the jury had the option to find [Appellant negligent] but not a contributing factor to the fire, obviating money damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he general rule in Pennsylvania is that evidence of insurance is irrelevant and prejudicial and justifies grant of a mistrial.”
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.