Pugar v. Greco’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
412 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 413 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Fried v. Fried (1985), 313 Pa. Super. 332 - Praisner v. Stocker (1983)
412 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Bell v. Beneficial Consumer Discount Co. · T. C. R. Realty, Inc. v. Cox · Piltzer v. Independence Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · Sullivan v. Philadelphia
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 413 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it is separable from and collateral to the main cause of action; (2) the right involved is too important to be denied review; and (3) the question presented is such that if review is postponed until final judgment in the case, the claimed right will be irreparably lost.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“piecemeal determinations and the consequent protraction of litigation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all appeals from final orders of the courts of common pleas.”
4 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.