Commonwealth v. Deitch Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 317 Pa. Super. 362 - Commonwealth v. Mathis (1983), Golden Triangle Broadcasting, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh (1979)
90 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 Commonwealth v. Sitkin's Junk Co. · Armour and Co. v. Pittsburgh · Commonwealth v. Weiland Packing Co. · Norris Bros. v. Commonwealth · Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Co. v. Pittsburgh School District
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The meaning of "manufacturing" has been restated by this Court in Philadelphia School District v. Parent Metal Products, Inc., 402 Pa. 361, 364 , 167 A.2d 257 , 258-59 (1961): "`Manufacturing' as used in a legislative enactment is given its ordinary and general meaning. [7] It consists in the application of labor or skill to material whereby the original article is changed into a new, different and useful article: Commonwealth v. Weiland Packing Company, 292 Pa. 447, 449 , 141 A. 148 (1928); Pittsburgh v. Electric Welding Company, 394 Pa. 60 , 145 A.2d 528 (1958). Whether or not an article is a manufactured product depends upon whether or not it has gone through a substantial transformation in form, qualities and adaptability in use from the original material, so that a new article or creation has emerged: General Foods Corp. v. Pittsburgh, 383 Pa. 244 , 118 A.2d 572 (1955). If there is merely a superficial change in the original materials, without any substantial and well signalized transformation in form, qualities and adaptability in use, it is not a new article or new production: Commonwealth v. Weiland, supra; Pittsburgh Electric Welding Co., supra."'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ppellant does begin and end with scrap or junk metal. It adds nothing to the mass as it arrives at the . . yard, but rather subtracts by cleaning away unwanted elements.. . . [T]he legal reality is that the transformation is merely superficial since the steel contained therein remains totally unchanged as a result of this activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court may, in its discretion, reopen the case after a party has closed for the taking of additional testimony, but such matters are peculiarly within the sound discretion of the trial court, and a denial of [an] opportunity for a rehearing for the purpose of introducing additional evidence will not ordinarily be disturbed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.