Pia v. Perrotti’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2016
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 City of Hazleton v. City Council · Schmid v. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. · 441 Pa. Super. 1 - Sprague v. Walter · 456 Pa. Super. 596 - Hoy v. Angelone · Schroeder v. Com., Dept. of Transp.
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.
“if these [destroyed] materials had been retained and had been able to have been inspected by the defendants, that evidence from those materials would have been unfavorable to the party that made them unavailable.” Id. The jury found in favor of the defendant. This Court conducted a full spoliation analysis and ultimately found no abuse of discretion in the trial court's issuance of a spoliation instruction. Id. at 325 . . As in Pia , we decline to announce a blanket rule that”
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.