431 Pa. Super. 58 - Green v. Vinglas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 2005
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Sneed · Lamp v. Heyman · Eckman v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jones · Farinacci v. Beaver County Industrial Development Authority
Most-quoted passages
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“Depending upon the process in a particular county, stalling the legal machinery can be accomplished “by instructing either the prothonotary or the sheriff to hold the writ, by personally retaining the writ and not delivering it to the sheriff for service, or by neglecting to pay the sheriff his fee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a course of conduct which serve[d] to stall in its tracks the legal machinery he has just set in motion”
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.