438 Pa. Super. 11 - Barrack v. Kolea’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2010
14 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 Pugh v. Holmes · Eckman v. Commonwealth · 320 Pa. Super. 444 - Burch v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. · Commonwealth v. O'Shea · Spang & Co. v. United States Steel Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of review in deciding whether or not a trial court erred in not granting a new trial is broader than when we pass on whether or not a denial of judgment n.o.v. was an abuse of discretion. ■Here we must consider all of the evidence. Only when the verdict is so contrary to the evidence so as to shock one’s sense of justice should a new trial be granted, however. We will not reverse the decision of the trial court in refusing to grant a new trial unless there has been a clear abuse of discretion or an error in law determinative to the outcome of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Damages are not speculative when they are certain in fact, even if uncertain as to amount.”
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.