Commonwealth v. Tick, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tilghman (1996), McCormick v. Columbus Conveyer Co. (1989)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 Delaware River Port Authority v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission · Haefele v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Tick, Inc. · 46 South 52nd Street Corp. v. Manlin · In re Vacation of Melon Street
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.
“It is hornbook law that issues decided by an appellate court on a prior appeal between the same parties becomes the law of the case and will not be reconsidered on a second appeal. See: Delaware River Port Authority v. Pa. P.U.C., 408 Pa. 169 , 182 A.2d 682 (1962); Ondovchik v. Ondovchik, 421 Pa. 20 , 218 A.2d 478 [578] (1966). Commonwealth v. Tick, Inc., 431 Pa. 420, 427 , 246 A.2d 424, 427 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Hendrick““A lower court is without power to modify, alter, amend, set aside or in any manner disturb or depart from the judgment of the reviewing court as to any matter decided on appeal. . . . Under any other rule, litigation would never cease, and finality and respect for orderly process of law would be overcome by chaos and contempt.” Haefele v. Davis, 380 Pa. 94, 98 , 110 A.2d 233, 235 (1955).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“gives proper consideration neither to the rights of the successful litigant nor to the mandate of our court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.