Singer v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 242 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 263 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lamb v. Wedgewood South Corp. (1983), Attorney General v. Johnson (1978)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 242 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 Stanley v. Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Dunn v. Blumstein · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 263 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any discussion of the constitutionality of lawfully-enacted legislation must commence with the restatement of the principle of law which creates a ‘presumption’ in favor of constitutionality. ‘An Act of Assembly will not be declared unconstitutional unless it clearly, palpably and plainly violates the Constitution.’ ... ‘[T]he burden rests heavily upon the party seeking to upset legislative action on constitutional grounds; all doubt is to be resolved in favor of sustaining the legislation.’ ...” (Emphasis in original; citations and footnote omitted.) Singer v. Sheppard, 464 Pa. 387, 393 , 346 A.2d 897, 900 (1975).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any conclusion that an individual has a vested right in the continued existence of an immutable body of negligence law would necessitate the invalidation of the No-Fault Act as a violation of Article I, Section 11, and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. “However, the practical result of such a conclusion would be the stagnation of the law in the fact of changing societal conditions. In 1876, in Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 , 24 L.Ed. 77 , the United States Supreme Court recognized that due process was not violated when legislative action modified the common law. The Court ruled: “ ‘A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law as they are developed, and to adopt it to changes of time and circumstances.’ (Emphasis added.) 94 U.S. at 134 .””
5 later decisions 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.