August v. Stasak’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cabeza (1983), Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n (1991)
75 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Brakeman v. Potomac Insurance Co. · Collister v. Nationwide Life Insurance · Kuchinic v. McCrory · Gibson v. Commonwealth
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge is mindful of the traditional antipathy toward retroactive law that springs from its recurring association with injustice and reckons with the possibility that a retroactive overruling could entail substantial hardship. He may nevertheless be impelled to make such an overruling if the hardships it would impose upon those who have relied upon the precedent appear not so great as the hardships that would inure to those who would remain saddled with a bad precedent under a prospective overruling only ... [T]he outworn precedent may be so badly worn that whatever reliance it engendered would hardly be worthy of protection. Traynor, R., La Rude Vita, La Dole Giustizia; Or Hard Cases Can Make Good Law, 29 U.Chi.L.Rev. 223, 231-32 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Since no distinction can be drawn between appellants and the injured party in Brakeman , the same relief should be available. See Gibson v. Commonwealth, 490 Pa. 156, 165 , 415 A.2d 80, 85 (1980) where in an analogous situation Mr. Justice Roberts stated for this court: `There is no principled reason to discriminate now against appellants whose causes also accrued before [the overruling decision] . . . both classes of suits affect the Commonwealth in equal measure, and therefore must be treated in like fashion.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will not protect the expectations of the company by enforcing an unfair forfeiture provision in an insurance policy”
1 later decision 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.