425 Pa. Super. 228 - Laudig v. Laudig’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 454 Pa. Super. 188 - Somerset Community Hospital v. Allan B. Mitchell & Associates, Inc. (1996), Allegheny International, Inc. v. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · Karis v. Karis · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Simeone v. Simeone · 417 Pa. Super. 592 - McMahon v. McMahon
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court may take into consideration the surrounding circumstances, the situation of the parties, the objects they apparently have in view, and the nature of the subject-matter of the agreement. The court will adopt an interpretation that is most reasonable and probable bearing in .mind the objects which the parties intended to accomplish through the agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The determination of marital property rights through prenuptial, postnuptial and settlement agreements has long been permitted, and even encouraged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he paramount goal of contract interpretation is to ascertain and give effect to the parties' intent.”
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.