MacKarus Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 311 - Wolk v. Wolk (1983), Commonwealth v. Powell (1991)
49 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 Zschernig v. Miller · Garrett's Estate · Link's Estate (No. 1) · Bokey Estate · In Re Longworth
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... When the court has come to a conclusion by the exercise of its discretion, the party complaining of it on appeal has a heavy burden; it is not sufficient to persuade the appellate court that it might have reached a different conclusion if, in the first place, charged with the duty imposed on the court below; it is necessary to go further and show an abuse of the discretionary power. “An abuse of discretion is not merely an error of judgment, but if in reaching a conclusion the law is overridden or misapplied, or the judgment exercised is manifestly unreasonable, or the result of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill-will, as shown by the evidence or the record, discretion is abused.” (Citation omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bring to the attention of the court circumstances to satisfy the court that it is in the interest of justice that the examination should take place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court will not issue a commission or letters rogatory merely because it is in the best interests of the petitioner.”
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.