Fried v. Fried’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 411 Pa. Super. 347 - Bash v. Bell Telephone Co. (1992), 400 Pa. Super. 408 - Motheral v. Burkhart (1990)
241 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. · Pugar v. Greco · T. C. R. Realty, Inc. v. Cox · Piltzer v. Independence Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 241 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.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] policy which allows piecemeal appeals from a single case serves only to increase the cost of litigation, and favors the party with the greater resources, who can strategically delay the action at the expense of the indigent party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Our decision today reflects that policy of law which abhors `piecemeal' determinations and the consequent protraction of litigation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.