Sewak v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 2002 Pa. Super. 326 - Debbs v. Chrysler Corp. (2002), Dardovitch v. Haltzman (1999)
26 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 Styer v. Hugo · Gibbs v. Ernst · Paden v. Baker Concrete Construction, Inc. · LaRocca Estate · 337 Pa. Super. 58 - Ingrassia Const. Co., Inc. v. Walsh
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved and the skill requisite properly to conduct the case; (2) The customary charges of the members of the bar for similar services; (3) The amount involved in the controversy and the benefits resulting to the clients from the services; and (4) The contingency or certainty of the compensation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) a representation; (2) which is material to the transaction at hand; (3) made falsely, with knowledge of its falsity or recklessness as to whether it is true or false; (4) with the intent of misleading another into relying on it; (5) justifiable reliance on the misrepresentation; and (6) the resulting injury was proximately caused by the reliance.””
2 later decisions 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.