Wiegand v. Wiegand’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
281 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1985), Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986)
281 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. · Commonwealth v. Clair · Wiegand v. Wiegand
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Superior Court by sua sponte deciding the constitutional issue exceeded its proper appellate function of deciding controversies presented to it. The court thereby unnecessarily disturbed the processes of orderly judicial decisionmaking. Sua sponte consideration of issues deprives counsel of the opportunity to brief and argue the issues and the court of the benefit of counsel's advocacy.. . . Furthermore, sua sponte determinations raise many of the considerations that led this court to require that issues presented on appeal be properly preserved for appellate review by timely objection in the trial court. See Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co., 457 Pa. 255 , 322 A.2d 114 (1974); cf. Commonwealth v. Clair, 458 Pa. 418 , 326 A.2d 272 (1974). It must therefore be concluded that the Superior Court should not have considered an unpresented issue, but instead resolved the appeal on the basis of the issues raised by the parties." Wiegand v. Wiegand, supra, 461 Pa. at 485 , 337 A.2d at 257-58 .”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must therefore be concluded that the Superior Court should not have considered an unpresented issue, but instead resolved the appeal on the basis of the issues raised by the parties. The order of the Superior Court is reversed and the cause remanded to the Superior Court for consideration of the issues raised at trial and properly preserved for appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the constitutionality of these provisions was never questioned by the parties either in the trial court or in their briefs in the Superior Court, we conclude that this issue was not properly before that court. We therefore reverse and remand to the Superior Court for consideration of the issues properly presented by the parties. .....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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