Hauck v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2001
9 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 Consolidation Coal Co. v. Commonwealth · 131 Pa. Super. 266 - Johnson v. Valvoline Oil Co. (Et Al.) · 137 Pa. Super. 69 - Heffron v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Kubacki v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 127 Pa. Super. 588 - Griffin v. National Mining Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight of authority in Pennsylvania, however, is that a properly authenticated death certificate is generally admissible as proof, albeit not conclusive, of both the fact and cause of death. (Citations omitted.) If, however, there is some reason to suspect the trustworthiness of facts asserted in the certificate or the competency of its author, the certificate is not competent evidence of the facts in question.”
2 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.