Ryan v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Maloney v. VALLEY MEDICAL FACILITIES, INC. (2009), 2003 Pa. Super. 268 - Wood v. EI Du Pont De Nemours and Co. (2003)
31 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 Schaffer v. Larzelere · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kaloustian · Connor v. Allegheny General Hospital · Commonwealth v. Starr · Riccio v. American Republic Insurance
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Depar-ture is allowed only in exceptional circumstances such as where there has been an intervening change in the controlling law, a substantial change in the facts or evidence giving rise to the dispute in the matter, or where the prior holding was clearly erroneous and would create a manifest injustice if followed.” Id. 3 . To the extent that Cobbs was referring to some other issue as the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“AND NOW, this 3rd day of August, 2004, after considering oral arguments of Counsel on the Rule issued by the Court to Show Cause why Count II of Petitioner’s complaint filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County should not be dismissed for failure to name the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) as a party to the appeal from its adjudication, the Court hereby dissolves the rule and transfers this case back to the common pleas court. There is no Commonwealth Agency named in the caption of Petitioner’s action, and therefore jurisdiction does not lie with the Commonwealth Court. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 763(a). Regardless of whether the PHRC is a disinterested party pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1513(b), as Petitioner claims, the Court’s lack of jurisdiction precludes it from reviewing the PHRC adjudication. See also [§ 962(c) ] of the [PHRA] (governing suits in common pleas courts after PHRC dismissal of complaints).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the motions differ in kind, as preliminary objections... differ from motions for summary judgment, a judge ruling on a later motion is not precluded from granting relief although another judge has denied an earlier motion. However, a later motion should not be entertained or granted when a motion of the same kind has previously been denied, unless intervening changes in the facts or the law clearly warrant a new look at the question.”
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.