431 Pa. Super. 588 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Sycamore Restaurant Group, LLC v. Stampfi Hartke Associates, LLC (2017), 448 Pa. Super. 327 - Spino v. John S. Tilley Ladder Co. (1996)
60 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Melzer v. Witsberger · 407 Pa. Super. 404 - Gemini Equipment Co. v. Pennsy Supply, Inc. · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Magaziner v. Magaziner
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 black letter law in this jurisdiction that an appellate court cannot consider anything which is not part of the record in this case.”
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.