Drumheller v. Marcello’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably In Re Estate of Bullotta (2003), 397 Pa. Super. 450 - Myers v. Myers (1990)
28 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 Bacchetta v. Bacchetta · Kravitz Estate · Clingerman v. Sadowski · 342 Pa. Super. 17 - Dech v. Dech · 346 Pa. Super. 416 - Pastuszek v. Pastuszek
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party seeks to invoke the protections available under the Slayer’s Act, a court must determine whether the slayer acquired any property or benefit by slaying the decedent, keeping in mind that the sections of the statute are to be construed broadly to effect the policies of the State.”
1 later decision 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.