435 Pa. Super. 227 - Pilon v. Bally Engineering Structures’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Shope v. Eagle (1998), 444 Pa. Super. 68 - Castings Condominium Ass'n, Inc. v. Klein (1995)
36 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 Shiomos v. STATE EMP. RETIREMENT BD. · Penn Piping, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America · 419 Pa. Super. 201 - Pennridge Electric, Inc. v. Souderton Area Joint School Authority · 415 Pa. Super. 113 - Stock v. Arnott · 428 Pa. Super. 568 - Gates v. Servicemaster Commercial Service
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is settled that it is the plaintiff, not defendant, who bears the risk of not acting within a reasonable time to move a case along. If plaintiffs counsel finds [himself] faced with delays created by others, [he] must take action to move the case forward, such as filing prae-cipes for argument on undecided motions, moving to compel [his] opponent to file a certificate of readiness, or requesting a conference with the judge, as provided by local rule to have the case put on the trial list.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the policy of the unified judicial system to bring each pending matter to a final conclusion as promptly as possible consistently with the character of the matter and the resources of the system. Where a matter has been inactive for an unreasonable period of time, the tribunal, on its own motion, shall enter an order terminating the matter.”
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.