Gekas v. Shapp’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
266 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Wicks v. Milzoco Builders, Inc. (1983), 277 Pa. Super. 4 - Hunter v. Port Authority of Allegheny County (1980)
266 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 PAPIEVES Et Ux. v. Kelly · Hoffman v. Misericordia Hospital · Schott v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Buchanan v. Brentwood Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. · Clevenstein v. Rizzuto
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A demurrer admits every well-pleaded material fact set forth in the pleadings to which it is addressed as well as all inferences reasonably deducible therefrom, but not conclusions of law. In order to sustain the demurrer, it is essential that the plaintiffs complaint indicate on its face that his claim cannot be sustained, and the law will not permit recovery. If there is any doubt, this should be resolved in favor of overruling the demurrer.”
23 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.