SCHOR v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2019
12 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 Peterson v. Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. · Yefko v. Ochs · Blue Ridge Metal Manufacturing Co. v. Proctor · Haskins v. Low
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of Costello’s death, the action against him had not been ‘commenced’ and, obviously, he had not been served with any process against him in any action and, therefore, Costello never became a ‘party’ to a pending action.. During his lifetime, Costello was not a ‘party’ to any action instituted against him by Ehrhardt and could not post-mortem, be made a party..”
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.