Gaster v. Gaster’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2020
10 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 378 Pa. Super. 474 - Sonder v. Sonder · 417 Pa. Super. 592 - McMahon v. McMahon · Brown v. Hall · 311 Pa. Super. 495 - Millstein v. Millstein · Silvestri v. Slatowski
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When interpreting the language of a contract, the intention of the parties is a paramount consideration. In determining the intent' of the parties to a written agreement, the court looks to what they have clearly expressed, for the law does not assume that the language was chosen carelessly. When interpreting agreements containing clear and unambiguous terms, we need only examine the writing itself to give effect to the parties’ intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] party to an agreement regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the court under this part, whether or not the agreement has been merged or incorporated into the decree, may utilize a remedy or sanction set forth in this part to enforce the agreement to the same extent as though the agreement had been an order of the court except as provided to the contrary in the agreement.”
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.