Bruno v. Elitzky’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably 429 Pa. Super. 1 - Boyle v. Steiman (1993), 377 Pa. Super. 366 - French v. United Parcel Service (1988)
36 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 Bell v. Beneficial Consumer Discount Co. · T. C. R. Realty, Inc. v. Cox · Posternack v. Am. Cas. Co. of Reading · Stevenson v. General Motors Corp. · Ventura v. Skylark Motel, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mr. Justice Hutchinson has entered a dissent groping with the viability of Grota v. LaBoccetta, 425 Pa. 620 , 230 A.2d 206 (1967), which dealt with the substantive merits of an affirmative defense. By contrast, disposition of the case under review is based on the issue of a sanction order for failure to respond to interrogatories. This qualitative difference clearly distinguishes the two cases.”
4 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.